Callistus
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Popes and antipopes
- Saint Callixtus I, pope from about 217 to 222
- Pope Callixtus IIPope Callixtus IIPope Calixtus II , born Guy de Vienne, the fourth son of William I, Count of Burgundy , was elected Pope on February 1, 1119, after the death of Pope Gelasius II . His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, which he was able to settle through the Concordat of Worms...
, pope from 1119 to 1124 - Antipope Callixtus IIIAntipope Callixtus IIIAntipope Callixtus III or Callistus III was Antipope from September 1168 to 29 August 1178.His real name was Giovanni, Abbot of Struma...
, antipope from 1168 to 1178 - Pope Callixtus IIIPope Callixtus IIIPope Callixtus III , né Alfons de Borja, was Pope from April 8, 1455 to his death in 1458.-Biography:...
, pope from 1455 to 1458
Other persons
- Callistus, a Roman general of the 3rd century more commonly known as BalistaBalistaBalista or Ballista , also known in the sources with the probably wrong name of "Callistus", was one of the Thirty Tyrants of the Historia Augusta, and supported the rebellion of the Macriani against Emperor Gallienus....
- Callistus Xanothopoulos, a patriarch of ConstantinoplePatriarch of ConstantinopleThe Ecumenical Patriarch is the Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome – ranking as primus inter pares in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....
- Gaius Julius CallistusGaius Julius CallistusGaius Julius Callistus was a Greek imperial freedman during the reigns of Roman Emperors Caligula and Claudius. Callistus was originally a freedman of Caligula, and was given great authority during his reign, which he used to amass even greater wealth...
, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Caligula - Georgius Calixtus, a 17th-century proponent of ecumenismEcumenismEcumenism or oecumenism mainly refers to initiatives aimed at greater Christian unity or cooperation. It is used predominantly by and with reference to Christian denominations and Christian Churches separated by doctrine, history, and practice...
- Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia, an Orthodox assistant bishop in the UK
- Nicephorus Callistus XanthopoulosNicephorus Callistus XanthopoulosNikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, latinized as Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus , of Constantinople, the last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished around 1320....
, last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished around 1320
Other
- Callistus (beetle), a ground beetleGround beetleGround beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, approximately 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.-Description and ecology:...
genusGenusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia... - Catacomb of CallixtusCatacomb of CallixtusThe Catacomb of Callixtus was one of the Catacombs of Rome on the Appian Way, most notable for containing the Crypt of the Popes , which contained the tombs of several popes from the 2nd to 4th centuries...