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[[Image:Kallistos Ware.jpg|right|frame|Metr. Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia]]
His EminenceExcellency, 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 has stated that he believes reposed in theistic evolutionthe 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.
==List of Writings by Kallistos (Timothy) Ware, Bishop of Diokleia==
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''.
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 [[Menaion]].
The list below contains the complete writings of Metropolitan Kallistos (up until the year 2001), as published in the [[w:Festschrift|Festschrift]] that was written for him,<ref group="note">John Behr, Andrew Louth, Dimitri Conomos (eds.). ''Abba, The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West: Festschrift for Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia.'' Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2003. 376 pp. ISBN 0-88141-248-1</ref> celebrating his retirement from active professional responsibilities in 2001.<ref group="note">For 35 years, from 1966 to 2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford.</ref> Each section below is listed in chronological order .
before=[[Maximos (Aghiorgoussis) of Pittsburgh|Maximos (Aghiorgoussis)]]|
title=Metropolitan of Diokleia|
years=1982-present2022|after=—To be determined}}
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