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CALIXTUS I

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 54 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALIXTUS I  ., See also:pope from 217 to 222, was little known before the See also:discovery of the See also:book of the Philosophumena . From this See also:work, which is in See also:part a pamphlet directed against him, we learn that See also:Calixtus was originally a slave and engaged in banking . Falling on evil times, he was brought into collision with the See also:Jews, who denounced him as a See also:Christian and procured his See also:exile to See also:Sardinia . On his return from exile he was pensioned by Pope See also:Victor, and, later, was associated by Pope See also:Zephyrinus in the See also:government of the See also:Roman See also:church . On the See also:death of Zephyrinus (217) he was elected in his See also:place and occupied the papal See also:chair for five years . His theological adversary See also:Hippolytus, the author of the Philosophumena, accused him of having favoured the modalist or Patripassian doctrines both before and after his See also:election . Calixtus, however, condemned See also:Sabellius, the most prominent See also:champion of that See also:system . Hippolytus accused him also of certain relaxations of discipline . It appears that Calixtus reduced the See also:penitential severities applied until his See also:time to those guilty of See also:adultery and other analogous sins . Under Calixtus and his two immediate successors, Hippolytus was the See also:leader of a schismatic See also:group, organized by way of protestagainst the election of Calixtus . Calixtus died in 222, in circumstances obscured by legends . In the time of See also:Constantine the Roman church reckoned him officially among the See also:martyr popes .

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