Stephanos 23 was deacon and kankellarios in the bureau (sekreton) of the patriarch of Constantinople; at the eighth session of the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council), on 7 March 681, he was among those named by the bishop of Melitene, Theodoros 26, as helping him to produce a statement noting that the previous five ecumenical councils had said nothing about the doctrine of One or Two Wills; he denied all knowledge of the document but, with the others, was told to produce a statement of faith to satisfy the Council: Riedinger, pp. 204-208 (= Mansi XI 341-345) (διάκονος καὶ καγκελλάριος; he was one of τινες τοῦ σεκρέτου τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου πατριάρχου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως). He was one of the group of suspected heretics admitted after the start of the ninth session to defend themselves; they declared their readiness to present a statement of faith: Riedinger, p. 268, p. 276 (= Mansi XI 381, 385). At the tenth session they all presented identical statements which were accepted: Riedinger, pp. 390-396 (= Mansi XI 449-455).

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