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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. 1934, also known by his lay name, '''Timothy Ware''') is 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 authored numerous books and articles pertaining to the [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox Christian faith]]. He has stated that he believes in theistic evolution.
==Life==
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.
==PublicationsList of Writings by Kallistos (Timothy) Ware, Bishop of Diokleia==Metr. Metropolitan Kallistos is 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''. But However his most substantial publications have emerged from his translation work. Together with [[G. E. Palmer]] and [[Philip Sherrard]]), he has 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]].
===Books===
* ''The Orthodox Church'' (Pelican Original: Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963), 352 pp.
:[New edition, fully revised (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993). Translated into various languages.]
* ''Eustratios Argenti: A Study of the Greek Church under Turkish Rule'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), xii + 196pp.
:[Photographic reprint (California: Eastern Orthodox Books, 1974).]
* ''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===
* Translated and edited with Mother Mary (of [[w:Bussy-en-Othe|Bussy-en-Othe]]), ''The Festal [[Menaion]]'' (London: Faber & Faber, 1969), 564 pp.
:[The introduction and appendices are by KW; the translation was made jointly.]
* Translated and edited with Mother Mary (of Bussy-en-Othe), ''The Lenten Triodon'' (London: Faber and Faber, 1978), 699pp.
:[The introduction is by KW, the translation was made jointly.]
* Translated with Mother Mary (of Bussy-en-Othe), ''The Lenten Triodon. Supplementary Texts'', duplicated publication by the Orthodox Monastery of the Veil of the Mother of God, Bussy-en-Othe, 1979 [in fact 1980], 305pp.
* Translated and edited with G. E. H. Palmer and [[Philip Sherrard|P. Sherrard]], ''The [[Philokalia]]. The Complete Text compiled by St. [[Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain|Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain]] and St. [[Macarius Notaras of Corinth|Makarios of Corinth]]'' (London: Faber & Faber, vol. I, 1979, 378pp.; vol, II, 1981, 414pp.; vol. III, 1984, 379pp.; vol. IV, 1995, 458pp.).
===Writings===
* “The Communion of Saints,” in A.J. Philippou (ed.), ''The Orthodox Ethos'', Studies in Orthodoxy, 1 (Oxford: Holywell Press, 1964), 140-9.
* “The Orthodox Church in England,” in [[Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe|Zoe Brotherhood ]] (ed.), ''A Sign of God: Orthodoxy 1964'' (Athens: Zoe, 1964), 47-62.
* “The Doctrine of the Church in Reunion Discussions,” ''Eastern Churches Newsletter'', 48 (1968), 4-13.
* “Man, Woman, and the Priesthood in Christ,” in Peter Moore (ed.), ''Man, Woman, and Priesthood'' (London: SPCK, 1978), 68-90, 177-80.
:[Reprinted in [[Thomas Hopko ]] (ed.), ''Women and the Priesthood'' (Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1983), 9-37.]
* “The ARCIC Agreed Statement on Authority: An Orthodox Comment,” ''One in Christ'', 14.3 (1978), 198-206.
* “Why I am an Orthodox,” ''The Tablet'' (16 February 1985), 159-60.
* “The Jesus Prayer in St. [[Diadochos of Photiki|Diadochus of Photice]],” ''Aksum Thyateira: A Festschrift for Archbishop Methodios'' (London, 1985), 557-68.
* “Nous “[[Nous]] and Noesis in Plato, Aristotle and [[Evagrius Ponticus|Evagrius of Pontus]],” ''Diotima'' 13, Proceedings of the Second International Week on the Philosophy of Greek Culture, Kalamata 1982, Part II (1985), 158-63.
* “Ways of Prayer and Contemplation. I. Eastern,” in B. McGinn & [[John Meyendorff|J.. Meyendorff ]] (edd.), ''Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century'', World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, vol. 16 (New York: Crossroad, 1985), 395-414.
* ''Praying Home: The Contemplative Journey'', with Mary Clare and Robert Llewelyn (Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1987).
* “Spirit, Church, Eucharist,” ''The Franciscan'', 29.2 (1987), 77-84.
* “The Unity of the Human Person according to the Greek Fathers,” in Arthur Peacocke and grant Grant Gillett (edd.), ''Persons and Personality. A Contemporary Inquiry'', Ian Ramsey Centre Publication no. I (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 197-206, 215-17.
* ''How to Read your Bible'' (Mt. Hermon , Ca: Conciliar Press, 1988), 16pp.
* “Orthodoxy in Britain: Its Origins and Future,” ''Sourozh'', 42 (1990), 23-8.
* “The Spiritual Father in St. [[John Climacus ]] and St. [[Symeon the New Theologian]],” ''Studia Patristica'', XVIII.2 (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications/Leuven: Peeters, 1989), 299-316.
:[Reprinted in Irenee Hausherr, ''Spiritual Direction in the Early Christian East'', Cistercian Studies Series, 116 (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1990), vii-xxxiii.]
* “Eastern Christendom,” in John McManners (ed.), ''The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 122-61.
* “The Meaning of the [[Divine Liturgy ]] for the Byzantine Worshipper,” in Rosemary Morris (ed.), ''Church and People in Byzantium'', Twentieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Manchester, 1986 (Birmingham: Center for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, 1990), 7-28.
* “Tradition, the Bible and the Holy Spirit,” ''Epiphany'', II.2 (1991), 7-16.
* “Praying with Icons,” in Paul McPartlan (ed.), ''One in 2000? Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity'' (Slough: St. Paul’s, 1993), 141-168.
* “Athos after Ten Years: the Good News and the Bad,” ''[[Friends of Mount Athos]], Annual Report 1992'' (published 1993), 8-17.
* “How to Read the Bible,” in Peter E. Gillquist (ed.), ''The [[Orthodox Study Bible]]: New Testament and Psalms'' (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1993), 726-70. (revised version on 1988 Conciliar Press pamphlet).
* “The Church of God: Our Shared Vision,” ''Logos'', 34.1-2 (1993), 10-29.
* “Response to Fr Andriy Chirovsky: ‘Towards an Ecclesial Self-Identity for the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church,’ ” ''Logos'', 35.1-4 (1994), 125-31.
* “Gerald Palmer, the Philokalia and the Holy Mountain,” in ''[[Friends of Mount Athos]], Annual Report 1994'' (published 1995), 23-28.
* “The Way of the [[Asceticism|Ascetics]]: Negative of Affirmative?” in Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis (edd.), ''Asceticism'' (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 3-15.
* “A Fourteenth-Century Manual of Hesychast Prayer: The ''Century'' of St. Kallistos and St. Ignatios Xanthopoulos” (Toronto: Canadian institute of Balkan Studies, 1995), 32pp.
* “ ‘Act out of Stillness’: The Influence of Fourteenth-Century [[Hesychasm ]] on Byzantine and Slav Civilization,” The “Byzantine Heritage” Annual Lecture, 28 May, 1995, ed. Daniel J. Sahas (Toronto: The Hellenic Canadian Association of Constantinople and the Thessalonikean Society of Metro Toronto, 1995), 25pp.
* “ ‘In the Image and Likeness’: The Uniqueness of the Human Person,” in John T. Chirban (ed.), ''Personhood: Orthodox Christianity and the Connection Between Body, Mind, and Soul'' (Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, 1996), 1-13.
:[Reprinted in Edward Yarnold (ed.), ''The Place of Mary in the Church: Mariologists on Mary – Co-Redeemer'' (Wallington, Surrey: Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1998), 3-5.]
* “God of the Fathers: [[C. S. Lewis ]] and Eastern Christianity,” in David Mills (ed.), ''The Pilgrim’s Tale: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness'' (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998), 53-69.
* “Man, Woman and the Priesthood of Christ” [revised version of 1978], in [[Thomas Hopko ]] (ed.), ''Women and the Priesthood'' (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1999), 5-53.
:[Reprinted in Elisabeth Behr-Sigel and Kallistos Ware, ''The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church'' (Geneva: Risk Book Series, WCC Publications, 2000), 49-96.
:French trans. “Homme, femme et pretrise du Christ,” in Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (ed.), ''L’ordination des femmes dans l’Eglise orthodoxe'' (Paris : Cerf, 1998), 51-96.]
* “The Soul in Greek Christianity,” in M. James C. Crabbe (ed.), ''From Soul to Self'' (London & New York: Routledge, 1999), 49-69.
* “Prayer in [[Evagrius Ponticus|Evagrius of Pontus ]] and the Macarian Homilies,” in Ralph Waller and Benedicta Ward (edd.), ''An Introduction to Christian Spirituality'' (London: SPCK, 1999), 14-30.
* “The Passions: Enemy or Friend?” ''In Communion'', 17, Journal of Orthodox Peace Fellowship (Fall 1999), I-8. [Also translated into Dutch and Finnish.]
* “Body, Intellect, Heart: Prayer of the Total Self,” ''The St. Nina Quarterly'', 3.1 (Winter 1999), I, 9-11, 15.
* “The Use of the [[Jesus Prayer ]] in Daily Life,” ''Saint Mark Annual Review 1999'' (Bethesda, Maryland: Saint Mark Orthodox Church, 2000), 1-13.
* “The Witness of the Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century,” Address at the Tenth Orthodox Congress in Western Europe, Paray-le-Monial, 30 October - I 1 November 1999, ''Sourozh'', 80 (May 2000), 1-14.
:[Reprinted in ''The Ecumenical Review'', 52.1 (2000), 46-56; also in translation in French, Italian, Flemish, and Greek.]
* “Saint [[Gregory Palamas]],” ''The Tablet'' (18 March 2000), 400.
* “The Nearness yet Otherness of the Eternal in Meister Eckhardt and St. Gregory Palamas,” ''Eckhardt Review'', 9 (Spring 2000), 41-53.
* “Eastern Christianity,” in Richard Harries and Henry Mayr-Harting (edd.), ''Christianity: Two Thousand Years'' (Oxford: OUP, 2001), 65-95.
* “ ‘The Earthly Heaven’: The Mother of God in the Teaching of St. [[John of Damascus]],” in William M. McLoughlin and Jill Pinnock (edd.), ''Mary for Earth and Heaven'' (Leominster: Gracewing, 2002), 355-68.
* “How do we enter the heart?” in James S. Cutsinger (ed.), ''Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East'' (Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom/Fons Vitae, 2002), 2-23.
===In ''‘Eastern Churches Review’''===
* “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.
===Included in ''“The Inner Kingdom”'' (2001)<ref group="note">''The Inner Kingdom'', The Collected Works, vol. 1 (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000).</ref>===* “ ‘Pray Without Ceasing’: The Ideal of Continual [[Prayer ]] in Eastern [[Monasticism]],” ''Eastern Churches Review'', 2.3 (1969), 253-261.
* “The Theology of Worship,” ''Sobornost'', 5.10 (1970), 729-37.
:[Reprinted (with revisions) in ''Spiritual Direction: Contemporary Readings'', ed. K. G. Culligan (Locust Valley: Living Flame Press, 1983), 20-40.]
* “Silence in Prayer: The Meaning of [[Hesychasm|Hesychia]],” in A. M. Allchin (ed.), ''Theology and Prayer'', Studies Supplementary to Sobornost, no. 3 (1975), 8-28.
:[Also in M. Basil Pennington (ed.), ''One Yet Two: Monastic Tradition East and West'', Cistercian Studies 29 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian, 1976), 22-47.]
* “The Orthodox Experience of [[Repentance]],” ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 2.1 (1980), 18-28.
* “What is a [[Martyr]]?” ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 5.1 (1983), 7-18.
* “The [[Fool-for-Christ|Fool in Christ ]] as [[Prophet ]] and [[Apostles|Apostle]],” ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 6.2 (1984), 6-28.
* “Time: Prison or Path to Freedom?” ''Fairacres Chronicle'', 22.3 (1989), 5-15.
* “A Sense of Wonder,” in Dan Cohn-Sherbok (ed.), ''Tradition and Unity: Sermons Published in Honour of Robert Runcie'' (London: Bellew Publishing, 1991), 79-83.
* “ ‘Go Joyfully’: The Mystery of [[Death ]] and [[Resurrection]],” in Dan-Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis (edd.), ''Beyond Death: Theological Reflections on Life after Death'' (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995), 27-41.
* “Strange Yet Familiar,” in Thomas Doulis (ed.), ''Towards the Authentic Church. Orthodox Christians Discuss Their Conversion: A Collection of Essays'' (Minneapolis: Light and Life, 1996), 145-68.
* “Dare We Hope for the Salvation of All?” ''Theology Digest'', 45.4 (1998), 303-17.
===Contributions===
* “Derwas James Chitty 1901-1971” (obituary), ''Eastern Churches Review'', 6.1 (1974), 1-6.
* “Archbishop [[Makarios III (Mouskos) of Cyprus” Cyprus|Makarios of Cyprus]]” (obituary), ''Eastern Churches Review'', 10.1-2 (1978), 151-2.
* “Archbishop Evgenios of Cyprus” (obituary), ''Eastern Churches Review'', 10.1-2 (1978), 152-3.
* “Archbishop [[Athenagoras (Kokkinakis) of Thyateira and Great Britain|Athenagoras of Thyateira]] (1909-79)” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review'') , new series 2.1 (1980), 58-68.
* “Nicolas “[[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.
* “David Balfour” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review''), new series 12.1 (1990), 52-61.
* “Father [[Dumitru Staniloae” Staniloae]]” (obituary), ''Forerunner'' (The Orthodox Fellowship of St John the Baptist). No. 23 (Summer, 1994), 14-17.
* “Philip Sherrard” “[[Philip Sherrard]]” (obituary), ''Sobornost'' (incorporating ''Eastern Churches Review''), new series 17.2 (1995), 45-52.
:[Reprinted with corrections in ''Friends of Mount Athos, Annual Report 1995'' (published 1996), 26-34.]
* “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.
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