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The Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos Ware (1934 – 2022) of Diokleia was an auxiliary bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Great Britain. Born in Bath, Somerset, England in 1934, throughout his life he was a leading author and translator of Orthodox texts. He studied Classics and Theology at Magdalene University, Oxford and after traveling through Greece and other Orthodox centers he was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He held a lecturer position at Oxford in Eastern Orthodox Studies for 35 years until his retirement in 2001. After his retirement, Metropolitan Kallistos served as the chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge as well as the chairman of Friends of Orthodoxy in Iona. His best known works include The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way, and his translation of the Philokalia with G. E. Palmer and Philip Sherrard.

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The Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos Ware's work appearing in World Wisdom books:

The "Foreword" in In the Heart of the Desert, Revised: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (by Father John Chryssavgis)
- Silver Midwest Book Award for “Religion/Philosophy/Inspiration”
The essay "How Do We Enter the Heart?" in Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East (edited by James S. Cutsinger)
The essay "The Power of the Name: The Jesus Prayer in Orthodox Spirituality" in Ye Shall Know The Truth: Christianity and The Perennial (edited by Mateus Soares de Azevedo)