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[[Image:Kallistos Ware.jpg|right|frame|Metr. Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia]]
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Metropolitan '''Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia''' (b. September 11, 1934- [[August 24]], 2022, also known by his lay name, '''Timothy Ware''') is was a [[titular bishop|titular metropolitan]] of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] in Great Britain. From 1966-2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at Oxford University, and has had authored numerous books and articles pertaining to the [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox Christian faith, and Orthodoxy's relationship to broader culture, including the sciences]]. He reposed in the Lord after struggling with various illness on August 24th, 2022.
==Life==
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 of a bishop|consecrated]] to the [[bishop|episcopacy]] as a [[titular 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, 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, Kallistos has had 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 was the chairman of the group [[Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona]]. He serves and served on the advisory board of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship.
On [[March 30]], 2007, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elevated the Diocese of Diokleia to Metropolis and Bishop Kallistos to Titular Metropolitan of Diokleia.
==PublicationsList of Writings by Kallistos (Timothy) Ware, Bishop of Diokleia==Metr. Metropolitan Kallistos is was 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 However his most substantial publications have emerged from his translation work. Together with [[G. E. Palmer]] and [[Philip Sherrard]]), he has had undertaken to translate the [[Philokalia]] (four volumes of five published to date); and with Mother Mary he produced English translations of the [[Lenten Triodion]] and Festal [[Festal Menaion]].
===Books===
* ''The Orthodox Church'' (Pelican Original: Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963), 352 pp.
:[New edition, fully revised (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993). Translated into various languages.]
* ''Eustratios Argenti: A Study of the Greek Church under Turkish Rule'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), xii + 196pp.
:[Photographic reprint (California: Eastern Orthodox Books, 1974).]
* ''The Orthodox Way'' (London & Oxford: Mowbrays/Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary press, 1979), 195pp. [Translated into various languages.]
* ''The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church'' (Geneva: WCC Publications, 2000), 96 pp.
===Translations===
:[The introduction is by KW, the translation was made jointly.]
* Translated and edited with G. E. H. Palmer and [[Philip Sherrard|P. Sherrard]]Mother Mary (of Bussy-en-Othe), ''The [[Philokalia]]Lenten Triodon. The Complete Text compiled Supplementary Texts'', duplicated publication by St. [[Nicodemus the Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Mountain|Nikodemos Veil of the Holy Mountain]] and St. [[Makarios Notaras of Corinth|Makarios Mother of Corinth]]'' (London: Faber & FaberGod, vol. IBussy-en-Othe, 1979[in fact 1980], 378pp.; vol, II, 1981, 414pp.; vol. III, 1984, 379pp.; vol. IV, 1995, 458pp.)305pp.
* Translated and edited with Mother Mary (of Bussy-en-Othe)G. E. H. Palmer and [[Philip Sherrard|P. Sherrard]], ''The Lenten Triodon[[Philokalia]]. Supplementary Texts'', duplicated publication The Complete Text compiled by St. [[Nicodemus of the Orthodox Monastery Holy Mountain|Nikodemos of the Veil Holy Mountain]] and St. [[Macarius Notaras of the Mother Corinth|Makarios of GodCorinth]]'' (London: Faber & Faber, Bussy-en-Othevol. I, 1979 [in fact 1980], 305pp378pp.; vol, II, 1981, 414pp.; vol. III, 1984, 379pp.; vol. IV, 1995, 458pp.).
===Writings===
* “The Communion of Saints,” in A.J. Philippou (ed.), ''The Orthodox Ethos'', Studies in Orthodoxy, 1 (Oxford: Holywell Press, 1964), 140-9.
* “The Orthodox Church in England,” in [[Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe|Zoe Brotherhood ]] (ed.), ''A Sign of God: Orthodoxy 1964'' (Athens: Zoe, 1964), 47-62.
* “The Doctrine of the Church in Reunion Discussions,” ''Eastern Churches Newsletter'', 48 (1968), 4-13.
* “Man, Woman, and the Priesthood in Christ,” in Peter Moore (ed.), ''Man, Woman, and Priesthood'' (London: SPCK, 1978), 68-90, 177-80.
:[Reprinted in [[Thomas Hopko ]] (ed.), ''Women and the Priesthood'' (Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1983), 9-37.]
* “The ARCIC Agreed Statement on Authority: An Orthodox Comment,” ''One in Christ'', 14.3 (1978), 198-206.
* “Why I am an Orthodox,” ''The Tablet'' (16 February 1985), 159-60.
* “The Jesus Prayer in St. [[Diadochos of Photiki|Diadochus of Photice]],” ''Aksum Thyateira: A Festschrift for Archbishop Methodios'' (London, 1985), 557-68.
* “Nous “[[Nous]] and Noesis in Plato, Aristotle and [[Evagrius Ponticus|Evagrius of Pontus]],” ''Diotima'' 13, Proceedings of the Second International Week on the Philosophy of Greek Culture, Kalamata 1982, Part II (1985), 158-63.
* “Ways of Prayer and Contemplation. I. Eastern,” in B. McGinn & [[John Meyendorff|J.. Meyendorff ]] (edd.), ''Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century'', World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, vol. 16 (New York: Crossroad, 1985), 395-414.
* ''Praying Home: The Contemplative Journey'', with Mary Clare and Robert Llewelyn (Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1987).
* “Spirit, Church, Eucharist,” ''The Franciscan'', 29.2 (1987), 77-84.
* “The Unity of the Human Person according to the Greek Fathers,” in Arthur Peacocke and grant Grant Gillett (edd.), ''Persons and Personality. A Contemporary Inquiry'', Ian Ramsey Centre Publication no. I (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 197-206, 215-17.
* ''How to Read your Bible'' (Mt. Hermon , Ca: Conciliar Press, 1988), 16pp.
* “Orthodoxy in Britain: Its Origins and Future,” ''Sourozh'', 42 (1990), 23-8.
* “The Spiritual Father in St. [[John Climacus ]] and St. [[Symeon the New Theologian]],” ''Studia Patristica'', XVIII.2 (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications/Leuven: Peeters, 1989), 299-316.
:[Reprinted in Irenee Hausherr, ''Spiritual Direction in the Early Christian East'', Cistercian Studies Series, 116 (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1990), vii-xxxiii.]
* “Eastern Christendom,” in John McManners (ed.), ''The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 122-61.
* “The Meaning of the [[Divine Liturgy ]] for the Byzantine Worshipper,” in Rosemary Morris (ed.), ''Church and People in Byzantium'', Twentieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Manchester, 1986 (Birmingham: Center for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, 1990), 7-28.
* “Tradition, the Bible and the Holy Spirit,” ''Epiphany'', II.2 (1991), 7-16.
* “Praying with Icons,” in Paul McPartlan (ed.), ''One in 2000? Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity'' (Slough: St. Paul’s, 1993), 141-168.
* “Athos after Ten Years: the Good News and the Bad,” ''[[Friends of Mount Athos]], Annual Report 1992'' (published 1993), 8-17.
* “How to Read the Bible,” in Peter E. Gillquist (ed.), ''The [[Orthodox Study Bible]]: New Testament and Psalms'' (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1993), 726-70. (revised version on 1988 Conciliar Press pamphlet).
* “The Church of God: Our Shared Vision,” ''Logos'', 34.1-2 (1993), 10-29.
* “Response to Fr Andriy Chirovsky: ‘Towards an Ecclesial Self-Identity for the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church,’ ” ''Logos'', 35.1-4 (1994), 125-31.
* “Gerald Palmer, the Philokalia and the Holy Mountain,” in ''[[Friends of Mount Athos]], Annual Report 1994'' (published 1995), 23-28.
* “The Way of the [[Asceticism|Ascetics]]: Negative of Affirmative?” in Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis (edd.), ''Asceticism'' (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 3-15.
* “A Fourteenth-Century Manual of Hesychast Prayer: The ''Century'' of St. Kallistos and St. Ignatios Xanthopoulos” (Toronto: Canadian institute of Balkan Studies, 1995), 32pp.
* “ ‘Act out of Stillness’: The Influence of Fourteenth-Century [[Hesychasm ]] on Byzantine and Slav Civilization,” The “Byzantine Heritage” Annual Lecture, 28 May, 1995, ed. Daniel J. Sahas (Toronto: The Hellenic Canadian Association of Constantinople and the Thessalonikean Society of Metro Toronto, 1995), 25pp.
* “ ‘In the Image and Likeness’: The Uniqueness of the Human Person,” in John T. Chirban (ed.), ''Personhood: Orthodox Christianity and the Connection Between Body, Mind, and Soul'' (Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, 1996), 1-13.
:[Reprinted in Edward Yarnold (ed.), ''The Place of Mary in the Church: Mariologists on Mary – Co-Redeemer'' (Wallington, Surrey: Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1998), 3-5.]
* “God of the Fathers: [[C. S. Lewis ]] and Eastern Christianity,” in David Mills (ed.), ''The Pilgrim’s Tale: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness'' (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998), 53-69.
* “Man, Woman and the Priesthood of Christ” [revised version of 1978], in [[Thomas Hopko ]] (ed.), ''Women and the Priesthood'' (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1999), 5-53.
:[Reprinted in Elisabeth Behr-Sigel and Kallistos Ware, ''The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church'' (Geneva: Risk Book Series, WCC Publications, 2000), 49-96.
:French trans. “Homme, femme et pretrise du Christ,” in Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (ed.), ''L’ordination des femmes dans l’Eglise orthodoxe'' (Paris : Cerf, 1998), 51-96.]
* “The Soul in Greek Christianity,” in M. James C. Crabbe (ed.), ''From Soul to Self'' (London & New York: Routledge, 1999), 49-69.
* “Prayer in [[Evagrius Ponticus|Evagrius of Pontus ]] and the Macarian Homilies,” in Ralph Waller and Benedicta Ward (edd.), ''An Introduction to Christian Spirituality'' (London: SPCK, 1999), 14-30.
* “The Passions: Enemy or Friend?” ''In Communion'', 17, Journal of Orthodox Peace Fellowship (Fall 1999), I-8. [Also translated into Dutch and Finnish.]
* “Body, Intellect, Heart: Prayer of the Total Self,” ''The St. Nina Quarterly'', 3.1 (Winter 1999), I, 9-11, 15.
* “The Use of the [[Jesus Prayer ]] in Daily Life,” ''Saint Mark Annual Review 1999'' (Bethesda, Maryland: Saint Mark Orthodox Church, 2000), 1-13.
* “The Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century,” Address at the Tenth Orthodox Congress in Western Europe, Paray-le-Monial, 30 October - I 1 November 1999, ''Sourozh'', 80 (May 2000), 1-14.
:[Reprinted in ''The Ecumenical Review'', 52.1 (2000), 46-56; also in translation in French, Italian, Flemish, and Greek.]
* “Saint [[Gregory Palamas]],” ''The Tablet'' (18 March 2000), 400.
* “The Nearness yet Otherness of the Eternal in Meister Eckhardt and St. Gregory Palamas,” ''Eckhardt Review'', 9 (Spring 2000), 41-53.
* “Eastern Christianity,” in Richard Harries and Henry Mayr-Harting (edd.), ''Christianity: Two Thousand Years'' (Oxford: OUP, 2001), 65-95.
* “ ‘The Earthly Heaven’: The Mother of God in the Teaching of St. [[John of Damascus]],” in William M. McLoughlin and Jill Pinnock (edd.), ''Mary for Earth and Heaven'' (Leominster: Gracewing, 2002), 355-68.
* “How do we enter the heart?” in James S. Cutsinger (ed.), ''Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East'' (Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom/Fons Vitae, 2002), 2-23.
===In ''‘Eastern Churches Review’''===
* “Between Heaven and Earth: Some Notes on Contemporary Greek Monasticism,” ''Sobornost'', 4.7 (1962), 398-408.
* “The Transfiguration of the Body,” ''Sobornost'', 4.8 (1963), 420-434. Reprinted (with revisions) in A.M. Allchin (ed.), ''Sacrament and Image'' (London: [[Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius]], 1967), 17-32.
* “Intercommunion: The Decisions of Vatican II and the Orthodox Standpoint.” ''Sobornost'', 5.4 (1967), 258-72.
===Included in ''“The Inner Kingdom”'' (2001)<ref group="note">''The Inner Kingdom'', The Collected Works, vol. 1 (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000).</ref>===* “ ‘Pray Without Ceasing’: The Ideal of Continual [[Prayer ]] in Eastern [[Monasticism]],” ''Eastern Churches Review'', 2.3 (1969), 253-261.
* “The Theology of Worship,” ''Sobornost'', 5.10 (1970), 729-37.
:[Reprinted (with revisions) in ''Spiritual Direction: Contemporary Readings'', ed. K. G. Culligan (Locust Valley: Living Flame Press, 1983), 20-40.]
* “Silence in Prayer: The Meaning of [[Hesychasm|Hesychia]],” in A. M. Allchin (ed.), ''Theology and Prayer'', Studies Supplementary to Sobornost, no. 3 (1975), 8-28.
:[Also in M. Basil Pennington (ed.), ''One Yet Two: Monastic Tradition East and West'', Cistercian Studies 29 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian, 1976), 22-47.]
* “The Orthodox Experience of [[Repentance]],” ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 2.1 (1980), 18-28.
* “What is a [[Martyr]]?” ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 5.1 (1983), 7-18.
* “The [[Fool-for-Christ|Fool in Christ ]] as [[Prophet ]] and [[Apostles|Apostle]],” ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 6.2 (1984), 6-28.
* “Time: Prison or Path to Freedom?” ''Fairacres Chronicle'', 22.3 (1989), 5-15.
* “A Sense of Wonder,” in Dan Cohn-Sherbok (ed.), ''Tradition and Unity: Sermons Published in Honour of Robert Runcie'' (London: Bellew Publishing, 1991), 79-83.
* “ ‘Go Joyfully’: The Mystery of [[Death ]] and [[Resurrection]],” in Dan-Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis (edd.), ''Beyond Death: Theological Reflections on Life after Death'' (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995), 27-41.
* “Strange Yet Familiar,” in Thomas Doulis (ed.), ''Towards the Authentic Church. Orthodox Christians Discuss Their Conversion: A Collection of Essays'' (Minneapolis: Light and Life, 1996), 145-68.
* “Dare We Hope for the Salvation of All?” ''Theology Digest'', 45.4 (1998), 303-17.
===Contributions===
* “Derwas James Chitty 1901-1971” (obituary), ''Eastern Churches Review'', 6.1 (1974), 1-6.
* “Archbishop [[Makarios III (Mouskos) of Cyprus” Cyprus|Makarios of Cyprus]]” (obituary), ''Eastern Churches Review'', 10.1-2 (1978), 151-2.
* “Archbishop Evgenios of Cyprus” (obituary), ''Eastern Churches Review'', 10.1-2 (1978), 152-3.
* “Archbishop [[Athenagoras (Kokkinakis) of Thyateira and Great Britain|Athenagoras of Thyateira]] (1909-79)” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 2.1 (1980), 58-68.
* “Nicolas “[[Nicolas Zernov ]] (1898-1980)” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review''), new series 3.1 (1981), 11-32.
* “Patriarch [[Benedict of Jerusalem” Jerusalem]]” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review''), new series 3.1 (1981), 102.
* “Mother Mary” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review''), new series 3.1 (1981), 103.
* “David Balfour” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review''), new series 12.1 (1990), 52-61.
* “Father [[Dumitru Staniloae” Staniloae]]” (obituary), ''Forerunner'' (The Orthodox Fellowship of St John the Baptist). No. 23 (Summer, 1994), 14-17.
* “Philip Sherrard” “[[Philip Sherrard]]” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review''), new series 17.2 (1995), 45-52.
:[Reprinted with corrections in ''Friends of Mount Athos, Annual Report 1995'' (published 1996), 26-34.]
* “Constance Babington Smith” (obituary), ''Forerunner'', 36 (Winter 2000-1). 34-5.
===Introductions / Editions to Other Works===
* Edited, with an introduction: Igumen Chariton, ''The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology'', translated by E. Kadloubovsky and E. M. Palmer (London: Faber & Faber, 1966), 287pp. [Introduction: pp.9-38.]
* Foreward to John Chryssavgis, ''Soul Mending. The Art of Spiritual Direction'' (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2000), ix-xi.
===In Other Languages===
before=[[Maximos (Aghiorgoussis) of Pittsburgh|Maximos (Aghiorgoussis)]]|
title=Metropolitan of Diokleia|
years=1982-present2022|after=—To be determined}}
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