Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia

The Most Rev. Kallistos Ware was titular Metropolitan of Diokleia in the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He was tonsured a monk and ordained to the priesthood in 1966, and consecrated a bishop in 1982. From 1966 until his retirement in 2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford. He was the author of many academic books and articles, and the translator of numerous patristic and liturgical texts, including The Philokalia (with G. E. Palmer and Philip Sherrard), and the Lenten Triodion and the Festal Menaion (with Mother Mary). He was also highly regarded for his popular volumes, The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way, and as a homilist and speaker. In his retirement, he remained actively involved with the work of the Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, the Fellowship of St Alban & St Sergius, and the Friends of Mount Athos. Died in 2022.

The Wheel #13/14. Being Human. Spring/Summer 2018

Foreword

”The heart of another is a dark forest,” writes Ivan Turgenev in A Month in the Country. This is true, indeed, not only of the heart of another, but equally of my own heart: that too is “a dark forest.” In the words of the Psalmist, “The heart is deep” (Ps. 64:6). There are profundities[…..]

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