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Born '''Timothy Ware''' in Bath, Somerset, England, Bp 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 (Patmos, Greeece)|Monastery of St. John]] in Patmos. He also frequented other major centers of Orthodoxy such as Jerusalem and [[Mount Athos]]. In 1966, he was [[ordination|ordained]] to the [[priest]]hood and was [[tonsure]]d as a [[monk]], receiving the name Kallistos.
In the same year, he became a don 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 [[consecration|consecrated]] to the [[bishop|episcopacy]] as an [[auxiliary bishop]] with the title ''Bishop of Diokleia'', appointed to serve as the assistant to the bishop of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]]'s [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain|Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain]]. Despite his elevation, Bp Kallistos remained in Oxford and carried on his duties both as the parish priest of the Oxford Greek Orthodox community and as a don lecturer at the University.
Since his retirement in 2001, Bp Kallistos has continued to publish and to give lectures on Orthodox Christianity throughout the world. He additionally leads annual pilgrimages to [[Iona]] and is the chairman of the group [[Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona]].
