Editing Pope Callixtus I (section)

{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from c. 218 to c. 223}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
|type=Pope
|honorific-prefix= [[Pope Saint]]
|name=Callixtus I
|title = [[Bishop of Rome]]
|church = [[Catholic Church]]
|image = Pope Callistus I – Santa Maria in Trastevere.jpg 
|caption = Excerpt from a mosaic in the apse of [[Santa Maria in Trastevere]] in Rome, {{circa|12th century}}
|term_start={{circa|218}}
|term_end={{circa|222}}
|predecessor=[[Pope Zephyrinus|Zephyrinus]]
|successor=[[Pope Urban I|Urban I]]
|ordination=199, as deacon
|ordained_by=[[Pope Zephyrinus|Zephyrinus]]
|birth_date=
|birth_place = [[Rome]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]], [[Roman Empire]]
|death_date=222
|death_place=[[Rome]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]], [[Roman Empire]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Calixtus-I|title=Saint Calixtus I|author=((The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica))|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=14 August 2016}}</ref>
|feast_day=14 October
|patronage=[[Cemetery|Cemetery workers]]<ref name="SQPN">{{cite web|url=http://saints.sqpn.com/pope-saint-callistus-i/|title=Pope Saint Callistus I|work=Saints.SQPN.com|access-date=14 October 2010|first = Tery M.|last=Jones|publisher= Star Quest Publication Network}}</ref>
|other=Callixtus
}}

'''Pope Callixtus I''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Κάλλιστος), also called '''Callistus I''', was the [[bishop of Rome]] (according to [[Sextus Julius Africanus]]) from {{circa|218}} to his death {{circa|222}} or 223.<ref name="ce">Chapman, John (1908). "Pope Callistus I" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</ref> He lived during the reigns of the [[Roman emperor]]s [[Elagabalus]] and [[Alexander Severus]]. [[Eusebius]] and the [[Liberian catalogue]] list his episcopate as having lasted five years (217–222). In 217, when Callixtus followed [[Pope Zephyrinus|Zephyrinus]] as Bishop of Rome, he started to admit into the Church converts from sects or schisms. He was [[martyr|killed for being Christian]] and is venerated as a saint and martyr by the [[Catholic Church]] (the patron saint of cemetery workers).