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

Popes and antipopes

Saint Callixtus I, pope from c. 217 to 222

Pope Callixtus II, pope from 1119 to 1124

Antipope Callixtus III, antipope from 1168 to 1178

Pope Callixtus III, pope from 1455 to 1458

Other persons

Callistus, a Roman general of the 3rd century more commonly known as Balista

Patriarch Callistus I of Constantinople

Patriarch Callistus II of Constantinople

Callistus Caravario (1903–1930), Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary

Callistus Chukwu (born 1990), Nigerian footballer

Callistus Ndlovu (1936–2019), Zimbabwean politician

Callistus Valentine Onaga (born 1958), Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop

Callistus Rubaramira (born 1950), Ugandan Roman Catholic bishop

Gaius Julius Callistus, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Caligula

Georg Calixtus (1586–1656), German Lutheran theologian

Kallistos Ware (1934–2022), Metropolitan of Diokleia in Phrygia, an Orthodox assistant bishop in the UK Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished c. 1320

Callistus

Other

Callistus (beetle), a ground beetle genus

Catacomb of Callixtus

See also

Calixte, French-language variant

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