Kallistos Ware

Kallistos Ware also known by his birth name Timothy Ware ( * September 11, 1934 in Bath, England ) is a bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel, Professor of Orthodox Studies at Oxford University and author of numerous books about the Orthodox Church.

Timothy Ware was born in 1934 in Bath, in southwest England. He grew up as an Anglican, attended with a scholarship Westminster School and then the University of Oxford, where he graduated in Classical Literature and Theology with First Honours. At 24, he converted to the Greek Orthodox Church. As a result, he spent several years in Greece, on Mount Athos and in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was ordained a priest and became a monk in the monastery of St. John the Theologian in Patmos, where he was given the name " Callisto ".

In the same year he began at Oxford University to teach Orthodox Studies, a position he retained for 35 years, until his retirement. In 1982 he was ordained as an auxiliary bishop of the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Thyatira and Great Britain of the Ecumenical Patriarchate titular bishop of Diokleia. Also Thyateira is a titular. As bishop, he remained in Oxford and also led his position as parish priest of the Greek Orthodox community of Oxford on.

In 2001 he joined for reasons of age in Oxford back, but he continues to publish and travels extensively to give lectures about the Orthodox Church.

March 31, 2007 Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia was appointed.

Works

Kallistos Ware is best known as the author of the nonfiction book The Orthodox Church, which he published as a layman in 1963 and revised several times since then. The book is widely regarded as the best English-language introduction to the history and structure of the Orthodox Church. It appears under his birth name Timothy Ware. In 1995, he was under the name Kallistos Ware ( German The ascent to God ) out a more spiritual embossed companion volume The Orthodox Way.

Most important, however are his translations. Together with GE Palmer and Philip Sherrard he translated the Philokalia, so far, four out of five volumes published. He has also translated important liturgical texts.

German:

  • Introduction to the prayer of the heart, 2004, ISBN 3-451-28389-1
  • People are - to share in God, and how understanding the Orthodox tradition, the redemption, 1997, ISBN 3-906596-00-1?
  • The ascent to God: Faith and spiritual life according to Eastern Christian tradition, 1998, ISBN 3-906596-03-6

English:

  • The Orthodox Church, Pelican, 1993, ISBN 0-14-014656-3 extracts
  • The Inner Kingdom: Collected Works, Vol 1, St Vladimir 's Seminary Press, 2000, ISBN 0-88141-209-0
  • In the Image of the Trinity: Collected Works, Vol 2, St Vladimir 's Seminary Press, 2006, ISBN 0-88141-225-2
  • Communion and intercommunion, Light & Life, 1980, ISBN 0-937032-20-4
  • Praying with Orthodox tradition, Abingdon, 1990, ISBN 0-281-04431-7
  • Eustratios Argenti: A Study of the Greek Church under Turkish Rule, Clarendon, 1964.

Lectures:

  • Bishop Kallistos: The Passions: Friend or foe?
  • Bishop Kallistos: Glorify God with Euerem body: The Sacrament of Healing
  • Bishop Kallistos: The spiritual warfare in the modern world
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