Timothy Ware

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name = Timothy Ware


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birth_date = 1934
birth_place = Bath, Somerset, England
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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.

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Timothy Ware (born 1934), also known as His Excellency, the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, is a titular Metropolitan of the Eastern / Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate.

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.

Early Life and Ordination

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".

Professional / Academic 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 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 [http://www.orthodox-iona.co.uk Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona] and of the Friends of Mount Athos.

On 30 March 2007, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, 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 became a titular Metropolitan.

Ecclesial relations

Since 2006, Bishop Kallistos has become very close to the Moscow Patriarchate's Diocese of Sourozh in Great Britain. [http://www.sourozh.org/web/News_-_Pan-Orthodox_Vespers%2C_2007] [http://sourozh.org/web/Newsitem-2007-06-13-Kallistos-Russian&useskin=russian] , 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.

Metropolitan Kallistos' support for the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh has brought tension with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, to which he owes his canonical obedience. In May 2008, he was expressly forbidden from attending and speaking at the annual conference of that Diocese.

Controversy over Interview at Lambeth Conference

In an interview given at the Lambeth Conference 2008 to the Prayer Book Societies [http://www.prayerbookatlambeth.org/interviews/2008/7/28/an-interview-with-the-most-revd-kallistos-ware-archbishop-of.html] , Metropolitan Kallistos referred to the possibility that the decisions of Anglican Churches on the ordination of women priests and bishops, and the blessing of same-sex relationships, might be seen as "prophetic" for the rest of Christendom". This has attracted considerable criticism from both Orthodox and Anglican sources [http://www.saintedwardbrotherhood.org/0908/shepherd10.html] .

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 thirteen years now); and with Mother Mary he produced the "Lenten Triodion" and "Festal Menaion".

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 many other works.

External links

* [http://www.thyateira.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=46 Official biography of Kallistos Ware]
* [http://www.geocities.com/trvalentine/orthodox/ware_conversion.html Timothy Ware: "Strange Yet Familiar: My Journey to the Orthodox Church"] Autobiographic account of his conversion from Anglicanism to Orthodoxy
* [http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/history_timothy_ware_1.htm Excerpts from "The Orthodox Church" by Bishop Kallistos Ware - Part I: History]
* [http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/history_timothy_ware_2.htm Excerpts from "The Orthodox Church" by Bishop Kallistos Ware - Part II: Faith and Worship]
* [http://realserver.goarch.org/ram/en/kallistos_ware_interview.ram Interview with Bishop Kallistos (RealVideo)]
* [http://www.octelevision.net/archives/07%2002%2005/Christian%20Unity.wmv Bishop Kallistos on Unity (Windows Media Video)]
* [http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/greek/kallistos_dromos.html "The Orthodox Way" in Greek online (translated by Maria Paschou)]
* [http://www.shqiptarortodoks.com/Kisha/udha-ortodokse.html "The Orthodox Way" in Albanian online (translated by Foti Cici)]
* [http://www.exarchate-uk.org/Exarchate/Local_church.html "How to Build the Local Church"] , a talk given at a Conference of the Archdiocese of Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe, Institut St-Serge, Paris, October 2005
* [http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/spu-public.1386077607.01386487273.1489150665?i=1921602855 My Journey to the Orthodox Church] , a luncheon speech given at Seattle Pacific University (link to iTunes U).