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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.
==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 [[Festal Menaion]].
The list below contains the complete writings of Metropolitan Kallistos (up until the year 20022001), 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 .
===Books===
* ''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===
* “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.
* “[[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.
* “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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