A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

28. STYPIOTA or STYPPA (Στυππῆς, or STYPA (Στυπῆς), patriarch of Constantinople in the twelfth century. His patriarchate extended from A. D. 1134 to 1143 (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 721, vol, xi. p. 666). He died just about the time of the accession of the Byzantine emperor Manuel Comnenus, who appointed as Leo's successor Michael Curcuas, a monk of Oxeia, by whom he was himself crowned, (Nicetas Choniat. De Manuele Comneno,1.2.) A decree of Leo on the lawfulness of certain marriages, is given in the Jus Orientale of Bonefidius (Θεσμοὶ Ἀρχιερατικοί, Sanction. Pontific. p. 59) and in the Jus Graeco-Romanum of Leunclavius (Lib. iii. vol. i. p. 217). He is often cited by Nicolaus Comnenus Papadopoli. (Fabric. ll. cc.)