English | Russian |
first martyr Stephen | первомученик Стефан |
Saint Stephen's Cathedral | собор св. Стефана (Cathedral in Vienna established in 1147) |
Stephen II | Стефан II (or III) (Pope from 752 to 757 and the first temporal sovereign of the newly founded Papal States; III) |
Stephen III | Стефан III (or IV) (Pope from August 768 to 772 who approbated the worship of icons for the Eastern Church and extended the rights of cardinal bishops for the Western Church; IV) |
Stephen IV | Стефан IV (or V) (Pope from June 816 to January 817. Immediately after his consecration he ordered the Romans to swear fidelity to the Carolingian emperor Louis I the Pious; V) |
Stephen IX | Стефан IX (or X) (Pope from August 1057 to March 1058, one of the key pontiffs to begin the Gregorian reform; X) |
Stephen V | Стефан V (or VI) (Pope from 885 to 891 whose pontificate witnessed the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire and intermittent struggles for the Italian crown; VI) |
Stephen VI | Стефан VI (or VII) (Pope from May 896 to August 897. Deprived of papal insignia, he was imprisoned and strangled. Twelve years of blood, intrigue, and terror followed; VII) |
Stephen VII | Стефан VII (or VIII) (Pope from 929 to 931. He extended privileges to Italian and French monasteries, but otherwise the history of his pontificate is practically unknown. He may have been assassinated; VIII) |
Stephen VIII or IX Pope from 939 to 942. He supported the important Cluniac reform of monasticism in Europe under the influence of Abbot St. Odo of Cluny | Стефан VIII (IX) |