Callistus
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Callistus, Callixtus (both Latin) and Kallistos (in Greek) may refer to:
- Gaius Julius Callistus, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Caligula;
- Balista, Roman general of the 3rd century also known as Callistus
- Three popes and one antipope
- Saint Callixtus I, pope from about 217 to 222;
- Pope Callixtus II, pope from 1119 to 1124;
- Pope Callixtus III, pope from 1455 to 1458;
- Antipope Callixtus III, antipope from 1168 to 1178;
- Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished around 1320;
- Callistus Xanothopoulos, a patriarch of Constantinople;
- George Callixtus, a 17th century proponent of ecumenism
- Callistus, a genus of ground beetle