Studied Canon Law in Bologna parallel with "Cardinal Gratian” and Civil Law under Bulgarus.
1165: Canon at the Canon Monastery Holy Cross in Orleans.
1177: Abbot ofSainte-Geneviève, established studies for clerics of the order.
1190: Sent by William of Rheims as Legate to Rome.
1192: Bishop of Tournai.
Death: 09. 12.1203
Activities as Canonist
1179: active role at theIII. Lateran Council
Defence against the Albigensians
Correspondence with Albericus (Ep. XXV.)
Wrote aSummaon the Dectretum, handed down to us in manuscripts, withPaucapaleaandRolandusas examples
Editions and Sources
DESILVE, Jules (ed.):Lettres d’Étienne de Tournai, Valenciennes/Paris 1893.
SCHULTE, Johanne Friedrich von (ed.):Die summa des Stephanus Tornacensis über das Decretum Gratiani, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Roth, Gießen 1891.
KALB, Herbert:Studien zur Summa Stephans von Tournai: ein Beitrag zur kanonistischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte des späten 12. Jahrhunderts, Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1983.