section_heading: Životopis
paragraph_text: Nepoznato je kada je Stjepan rođen. Postao je patrijarh 477. godine te je tako naslijedio Ivana II. Kodonata,<ref>A. Fortescue. The lesser eastern churches. [https://books.google.hr/books?id=TKbuAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&dq=Stephen+II+of+Antioch+patriarch&hl=hr&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Stephen%20II%20of%20Antioch%20patriarch&f=false str. 192]. koji je protjeran nakon što je bio patrijarh tri mjeseca. Stjepan je ubijen 479.<ref>Aloys Grillmeier, Pauline Allen (1986). Christ in Christian Tradition: From the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gragory the Great (590-604). Westminster John Knox Press.<ref>David A. Michelson (2014). The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug. [https://books.google.hr/books?id=3oMeBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=Stephen+II+of+Antioch+patriarch&hl=hr&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Stephen%20II%20of%20Antioch%20patriarch&f=false str. 10]. te ga je naslijedio Kalandion.