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The Decretals
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[2719] The ms. reads, “and those wearing the priestly dignity.”
[2722] Or, Gallus. [See note 5, p. 610.]
The Epistles of Pope Callistus.
[2723] Callistus succeeded Zephyrinus in the bishopric of Rome, and discharged the duties of that office for five years. This is all the information which Eusebius (in his Chronicon and Hist. Eccl., vi. 21) gives us in regard to Callistus. Later writers make many other statements. [See note, p. 618.]
The letters attributed to him form part of the False Decretals of the pseudo-Isidorus, mentioned in the notice of Zephyrinus.
[2724] Mansi, Concil., i. 737.
[2729] Ecclesiasticus 18.30.
[2730] See Augustine’s Confessions, book ix. ch. ix.
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