Timothy Ware

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Timothy Ware

Metropolitan Kallistos speaking at Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Oakland, California
Born 1934 in Bath, Somerset, England
Church Eastern Orthodox Church, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
Other names Kallistos
Education Westminster School; Magdalen College, Oxford (double first in classics)
Ordained 1966 (priest and monk), 1982 (Bishop of Diokleia)
Writings The Orthodox Church (1993, ISBN 0-14-014656-3), The Orthodox Way (1995, ISBN 0-913836-58-3), et al.
Title Metropolitan of Diokleia

Timothy Ware (born 1934), also known as His Excellency, the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, is a titular Metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Despite this, since 2006 he has become very close to the Moscow Patriarchate's Diocese of Sourozh in Great Britain. [1][2], notwithstanding the departure of over half the clergy and laity of that Diocese to the Episcopal Vicariate of Great Britain and Ireland headed by Bishop Basil of Amphipolis, who, like Metropolitan Kallistos himself, serves in Oxford.

From 1966 to 2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at Oxford University, and has authored numerous books and articles pertaining to the Orthodox Christian faith.

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[edit] Life

Born Timothy Ware in Bath, Somerset, England, Metropolitan Kallistos was educated at Westminster School (to which he had won a scholarship) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a Double First in Classics as well as reading Theology. In 1958, at the age of 24, he embraced the Orthodox Christian faith (having been raised Anglican), traveling subsequently throughout Greece, spending a great deal of time at the Monastery of St John the Theologian in Patmos. He also frequented other major centers of Orthodoxy such as Jerusalem and Mount Athos. In 1966 he was ordained to the priesthood and was tonsured as a monk, receiving the name Kallistos.

In the same year, he became a lecturer at Oxford, teaching Eastern Orthodox Studies, a position which he held for 35 years until his retirement. In 1979, he was appointed to a Fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford, and in 1982 he was consecrated to the episcopacy as an auxiliary bishop with the title Bishop of Diokleia, appointed to serve as the assistant to the bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. Despite his elevation, Kallistos remained in Oxford and carried on his duties both as the parish priest of the Oxford Greek Orthodox community and as a lecturer at the University.

Since his retirement in 2001, Metropolitan Kallistos has continued to publish and to give lectures on Orthodox Christianity, traveling widely. Until recently, he was the chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. He is the chairman of the group Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona and of the Friends of Mount Athos.

On 30 March 2007, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, solely on account of his appointment as Chairman of the Anglican-Orthodox Theological Commission, elevated the Diocese of Diokleia to a Metropolis and thus Bishop Kallistos to titular Metropolitan.

[edit] Publications

Metropolitan Kallistos is perhaps best known as the author of the book The Orthodox Church, published when he was a layman in 1963 and subsequently revised several times. More recently, he produced a companion volume, The Orthodox Way. But his most substantial publications have emerged from his translation work. Together with G. E. Palmer and Philip Sherrard), he has undertaken to translate the Philokalia (four volumes of five published to date, but no progress has been made with the fifth volume for over twelve years now); and with Mother Mary he produced the Lenten Triodion and Festal Menaion.

[edit] Writings

A partial bibliography:
  • The Orthodox Church, 2nd ed. (Pelican, 1993 ISBN 0-14-014656-3)
  • The Orthodox Way (St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1995, ISBN 0-913836-58-3)
  • The Lenten Triodion, Tr. Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware (St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, 2002, ISBN 1-878997-51-3) - first published by Faber and Faber Ltd., 1978
  • The Inner Kingdom: Collected Works, Vol. 1 (St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2000, ISBN 0-88141-209-0)
  • In the Image of the Trinity: Collected Works, Vol. 2 (St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2006, ISBN 0-88141-225-2)
  • Communion and Intercommunion (Light & Life, 1980, ISBN 0-937032-20-4)
  • How Are We Saved?: The Understanding of Salvation in the Orthodox Tradition (Light & Life, 1996, ISBN 1-880971-22-4)
  • Praying with Orthodox Tradition (Abingdon, 1990, ISBN 0-281-04431-7)
  • Eustratios Argenti: A Study of the Greek Church under Turkish Rule (Clarendon, 1964, ASIN B0006BMI94)


He has also co-authored, edited, and translated other works.

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