# Callistus

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For a beetle, see [Callistus (beetle)](/source/Callistus_(beetle)).

**Callistus**, **Calistus**, **Callixtus**, and **Calixtus** (all four in Latin) and **Kallistos** (Greek: Κάλλιστος "the most beautiful one") may refer to:

## Patriarchs, popes and antipopes

- Patriarch [Callistus I of Constantinople](/source/Callistus_I_of_Constantinople), patriarch from 1350 to 1353 and from 1354 to 1363
- Patriarch [Callistus II of Constantinople](/source/Callistus_II_of_Constantinople), patriarch in 1397
- [Saint Callixtus I](/source/Pope_Callixtus_I), pope from c. 217 to 222
- [Pope Callixtus II](/source/Pope_Callixtus_II), pope from 1119 to 1124
- [Antipope Callixtus III](/source/Antipope_Callixtus_III), antipope from 1168 to 1178
- [Pope Callixtus III](/source/Pope_Callixtus_III), pope from 1455 to 1458

## Other persons

- Callistus, a Roman general of the 3rd century more commonly known as [Balista](/source/Balista)
- [Callistus Caravario](/source/Callistus_Caravario) (1903–1930), Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary
- [Callistus Chukwu](/source/Callistus_Chukwu) (born 1990), Nigerian footballer
- [Callistus Ndlovu](/source/Callistus_Ndlovu) (1936–2019), Zimbabwean politician
- [Callistus Valentine Onaga](/source/Callistus_Valentine_Onaga) (born 1958), Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop
- [Callistus Rubaramira](/source/Callistus_Rubaramira) (born 1950), Ugandan Roman Catholic bishop
- [Gaius Julius Callistus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Callistus), a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Caligula
- [Georg Calixtus](/source/Georg_Calixtus) (1586–1656), German Lutheran theologian
- [Kallistos Ware](/source/Kallistos_Ware) (1934–2022), Metropolitan of Diokleia in Phrygia, an Orthodox assistant bishop in the UK
- [Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos](/source/Nikephoros_Kallistos_Xanthopoulos), last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished c. 1320

## See also

- [Calixte](/source/Calixte), French-language variant

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