 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Stephen akanga achironga kudzingwa kwavaNorman kubva kumaodzanyemba kweItaly. Pane imwe nguva muna 1057 kana kuti 1058, akaita musangano umo vagari vomuCapua, guta guru roumambo hweNorman, uye mufundisi ainzi Lando vakadzingwa. Kuti afambisire mberi zvinangwa zvake kumaodzanyemba, akasarudza, pakuvamba kwa1058, kutumira nhume kumutongi mutsva weByzantine Isaac I Komnenos 1057-1059. Nhume dzacho dzaiva Cardinal Stephen, mukuru mukuru wevaBenedictine wemamongi eSs. Andrea naGregorio muRoma; Cardinal Mainard, mumongi weBenedictine weMonte Cassino; uye Desiderius, abbot-akasarudzwa weBenedictine weMonte Cassino. Nhume dzapapa idzi dzakabva muRoma, asi padzakasvika kuBari, yaiva neByzantium, mashoko akasvika okuti Stephen IX akanga afa, uye basa racho rakasiyiwa. 