Callixtus I
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Callixtus I was a leader of the Christian church in Rome who served as its bishop (a position later known as Pope) for about five years in the early 200s. He is historically significant because he was one of the earliest figures in the development of the Roman church's authority and organization during Christianity's formative centuries.
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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). In 217, when Callixtus followed Zephyrinus as Bishop of Rome, he started to admit into the Church converts from sects or schisms. He was killed for being Christian and is venerated as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church (the patron saint of cemetery workers).
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