Calixtus II

American  

Or Callistus II

noun

1. died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.

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In 1119 Calixtus II. presided over a council at Toulouse which condemned the Manich�an heresy, but was forced to content itself with sentencing the heretics to expulsion from the Church.

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Negotiations, begun at W�rzburg, were continued at Worms, where the new pope, Calixtus II., was represented by Cardinal Lambert, bishop of Ostia.

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I.—March 19, 1123, under Calixtus II., with regard to the Investiture.

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We have rendered our homage to some: for instance, to a Gregory II. in the eighth century; a Leo IV. in the ninth; to Calixtus II.

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The election of Diego's friend, Calixtus II, to the papacy, gave him his supreme opportunity.

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