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;
• Georgius Calixtus, a 17th-century proponent of ecumenism;
• Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia, an assistant bishop (Orthodox) in the UK;
• Callistus, a genus of ground beetle