Stephen White, SJ (1575–1646) was a Jesuit author and antiquarian who wrote about the early Irish saints.
Unwilling to take the Oath of Supremacy, he left his native land and entered the Irish College at Salamanca, Spain, where in 1596 he joined the Society of Jesus, and taught from 1602 to 1606.
[1] His biographical notices of early Irish saints were utilized in the "Acta SS", and the Bollandists acknowledged the assistance which he gave to Father Heribert Rosweyde.
In refutation he wrote his best-known work Apologia pro Hibernia adversus Cambri calumnias, probably written some time before 1615.
For some years he laboured in his native Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, mainly engaged in teaching catechism to children.