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- As the 16th pope, Callixtus established policies that allowed heretics and others who spoke out against the Church to return. He converted some and absolved others of their sins. The pope believed that even those who murdered others, used early forms of birth control and indulged in other major sins were worthy of the Church.
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St. Callixtus I (died 222, Rome [Italy]; feast day October 14) was the pope from about 217 to 222, during the schism of St. Hippolytus, the church’s first antipope.
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Pope Callixtus I (Greek: Κάλλιστος), also called Callistus I, was the bishop of Rome (according to Sextus Julius Africanus) from c. 218 to his death c. 222 or 223. He lived during the reigns of the Roman emperors Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. Eusebius and the Liberian catalogue list his episcopate as having lasted five years (217–222
His Acts are spurious, but he is the earliest pope found in the fourth-century “Depositio Martirum”, and this is good evidence that he was really a martyr, although he lived in a time of peace under Alexander Severus, whose mother was a Christian.
Pope Callixtus I was the first of three popes to choose the name Callixtus. He was the 16th pope of the Church and one of the early men martyred for their beliefs and positions. Having spent his early years as a slave, he had a deep commitment to helping the poor.
Nov 7, 2018 · Callistus I (pope from 217-222) didn’t have it easy. He was a slave who lost all the money entrusted to him, ran away and was caught, was sentenced to hard labor for starting a fight, faced harsh criticism from some of the leading minds of the early church, endured a schism, and, to top it all off, saw his story written by one of his ...
Callistus is the first pope, except for Peter, whose name was commemorated as a martyr in the oldest martyrology of the Roman Church, the fourth-century depositio martyrum ( c. 354).
Pope Saint Callistus I, also known as Callixtus I or Calixtus I, was born into slavery and served as a slave to Carpophorus, a Christian who was a member of the household of Caesar. Carpophorus entrusted a significant amount of money to Callistus and tasked him with opening a bank.
