Metropolitan Kallistos Ware

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.