June 27, 2012
Washington, DC: Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) delivered a lecture on
the Jesus Prayer at
St. John the Baptist Cathedral
On
Friday, June 22, eminent Orthodox theologian Metropolitan Kallistos
(Ware) delivered a lecture on the Jesus Prayer at
St. John the Baptist Cathedral
in Washington, DC.
Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia was born Timothy Ware, in 1934.
In infancy, he was baptized an Anglican, and became a convert to
Orthodoxy in 1958. He spent a considerable period of time in St.
John the Theologian Monastery -on the Island of Patmos, Greece, and
has frequently been in Jerusalem and on Mt. Athos. In 1966, he
received monastic tonsure, and was ordained a hieromonk. From 1966
until his retirement in 2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern
Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford. In 1982, he was
consecrated Bishop of Diokleia, vicar to the Archbishop of Thyateira
and Great Britain (Ecumenical Patriarchate). Following his
consecration to the Episcopate, he remained at Oxford, where he
continued to teach at the University, and to head a Greek Orthodox
parish.
Since
his retirement in 2001, Metropolitan Kallistos has continued to be
active, publishing his works and lecturing on Orthodoxy. Until
recently, he chaired the Board of Directors of the Institute for
Orthodox Christian Studies at Cambridge. He is the president of the
Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona. Metropolitan Kallistos’ most famous
book is The Orthodox Church,
which was first published in 1963, before his tonsure into
monasticism and his ordination to the priesthood. Several editions
have been published since, including one in Russian. Together with
G.E. Palmer and Philip Sherrard, he translated four of the five
volumes of the Philokalia.
Metropolitan Kallistos and Nun Maria together prepared an English
version of the Lenten Triodion and the Festal Menaion.
A video of the lecture and audio podcast are available to our
readers in English below:
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