11 Facts About Kallistos Ware

Kallistos Ware was one of the best-known modern Eastern Orthodox hierarchs and theologians.

Kallistos Ware described his first contacts with Orthodoxy and the growing attraction of the Eastern Orthodox Church in an autobiographical text entitled "My Journey to the Orthodox Church".

Thoroughly conversant in modern Greek, Kallistos Ware became an Eastern Orthodox monk at the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Patmos, Greece.

Kallistos Ware frequented other major centres of Orthodoxy, such as Jerusalem and Mount Athos.

In 1966, Kallistos Ware became Spalding Lecturer at the University of Oxford in Eastern Orthodox studies, a position he held for 35 years until his retirement.

From his retirement in 2001, Kallistos Ware had continued to publish and to give lectures on Orthodox Christianity.

Kallistos Ware served as chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, and was chairman of the Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona and of the Friends of Mount Athos.

Kallistos Ware died at home in Oxford in the early hours of 24 August 2022 at age 87.

Kallistos Ware authored or edited over a dozen books, numerous articles in a wide range of periodicals, and essays in books on many subjects, as well as providing prefaces, forewords, or introductions to many other books.

Kallistos Ware is perhaps best known as the author of The Orthodox Church, published when he was a layman in 1963 and subsequently revised several times.

Kallistos Ware collaborated in the translation and publication of major Orthodox ascetic and liturgical texts.