Pope Callistus I

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Pope217–222

Who

Opposed by Hippolytus as too lenient toward repentant sinners and unsound on the Trinity; honoured as a martyr, and the catacomb on the Appian Way bears his name.

Sources

Eusebius, Church History
Liber Pontificalis
Annuario Pontificio

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In the succession →

See of Rome, 217–222.

Succeeded: Pope Zephyrinus199–217
See of Rome, 217–222
Succeeded by: Pope Urban I222–230
See of Rome, 222–230

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