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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 [[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 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, travelling widely. He additionally leads annual pilgrimages to Until recently, he was the chairman of the board of directors of the [[IonaInstitute for Orthodox Christian Studies]] and in Cambridge. He is the chairman of the group [[Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona]].
==Publications==Bp 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. The book is still in print andMore recently, along with he produced a second bookcompanion volume, ''The Orthodox Way''. But his most substantial publications have emerged from his translation work. Together with [[G. E. Palmer]] and [[Philip Sherrard]]), is considered by many to be among the best introductions to Orthodoxy in the English language. In addition to these he has spent many years in preparing an important translation of undertaken to translate the [[Philokalia, ]] (four volumes of which have so far been five published. He is also a translator of to date); and with Mother Mary he produced the [[Lenten Triodion ]] and the [[Festal Menaion]].
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