Kallistos Ware

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
Kallistos Ware speaking at Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Oakland, California
Born	(1934-09-11) 11 September 1934 (age 82) Bath, Somerset, England
Other names	Timothy
Education	Westminster School; Magdalen College, Oxford
Church	Eastern Orthodox Church, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
Ordained	1966 (priest and monk), 1982 (Bishop of Diokleia)
Writings	The Orthodox Church (1993, ), The Orthodox Way (1979, ), et al.
Title	Metropolitan of Diokleia

Kallistos Ware (born Timothy Ware on 11 September 1934) is an English bishop within the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and one of the best-known contemporary Eastern Orthodox theologians. From 1982 he has held the Titular Bishopric of Diokleia. In 2007 the bishopric was made a titular metropolitan bishopric.

From 1966 to 2001, Ware was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford. He has authored numerous books and articles pertaining to the Orthodox Christian faith.

Born Timothy Ware in Bath, Somerset, England, he was educated at Westminster School in London (to which he had won a King's Scholarship) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a double first in classics as well as reading theology. On 14 April 1958, at the age of 24, he embraced the Orthodox Christian faith (having been raised Anglican), travelling subsequently throughout Greece and spending a great deal of time at the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Patmos. He also frequented other major centres of Orthodoxy such as Jerusalem and Mount Athos. While still a layman, he spent six months in Canada at a monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. In the 1964 edition of his book The Orthodox Church, Ware is described as "working in Montreal with the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile". In 1966 he was ordained to the priesthood within the Ecumenical Patriarchate and was tonsured as a monk, receiving the name "Kállistos".