Callixtus I, Bishop of Rome
?–222 CE · Rome
Callixtus, by tradition a former slave who managed a Christian cemetery on the Appian Way (the Catacombs of Callixtus still bear his name), became bishop of Rome around 217. His pontificate is known mainly through the hostile writings of Hippolytus, who accused him of laxity and heresy and set himself up as a rival. Callixtus is remembered for a more lenient penitential discipline, readmitting repentant sinners to communion, and for theological positions Hippolytus deemed modalist. Later venerated as a martyr, he embodies early third-century disputes over Church discipline, authority, and the boundaries of orthodoxy in Rome. He is traditionally counted among the early popes.
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Rome in this era
Governed by the Roman emperors from the Antonines through the Tetrarchy, Rome housed a bishop's see of growing prestige, was the scene of periodic persecutions, and saw theologians such as Justin Martyr debate and die for the faith in the second century.
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Julius Africanus, Hippolytus, Sabellius, Novatian, Urban I, Bishop of Rome, Zephyrinus, Bishop of Rome
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
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Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Julius Africanus, Hippolytus, Sabellius, Novatian, Urban I, Bishop of Rome, Zephyrinus, Bishop of Rome, Minucius Felix
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