Callistus3. A monk of mount Athos.
During the war between Palaeologus and Cantacuzenus he was sent by the monks to
Constantinople to endeavour to restore peace; but he was ill-treated there by the empress Anna
and the patriarch Joannes. About the year A. D. 1354, the emperor
Cantacuzenus made Callistus patriarch of Constantinople. The year after, when he was requested
by the same emperor to crown his son Matthaeus, Callistus refused to comply with the request
and withdrew to a monastery. As he refused to perform his duties as patriarch, Philotheus was
appointed in his place. But when afterwards Joannes Palaeologus had gained
possession of the imperial throne, Callistus was restored to the patriarchal see. The year
after his restoration he was sent as ambassador to the Servian princess Elizabeth to conclude
a peace, and during this embassy he died near Pherne, the capital of the Servians.
Works
On the Exaltation of the Cross
There is a Greek homily on the exaltation of the cross by one Callistus, but whether it is
the work of our Callistus, or of another who was patriarch of Constantinople in A. D. 1406, is uncertain.
Editions
This is printed with a Latin translation in Gretser (De Cruce,
ii. p. 1347).
Other theological works ascribed to a Callistus
There are some other works of a theological nature which are ascribed to one Callistus,
but they have never been printed.
Further Information
Wharton's Appendix to Cave, Hist. Lit. i. p. 46, &c., ed.
London.
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