June 12, 2012 Washington, DC:
Lectures by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) and Nun Vassa (Larin) will
be held at St. John the Baptist Cathedral
The
eminent Orthodox theologian Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) will
present a lecture in the parish hall of
St. John the Baptist Cathedral at 7:00 PM on Friday, June 22.
His Eminence will speak on the Jesus Prayer.
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.
After lunch following the later Liturgy on
Sunday, June 24, Nun Vassa (Larin), professor of theology at the
University of Vienna, will present a lecture on the subject: "What
is liturgical scholarship addressing today, and why?" The talk,
which will be given in Russian, will be held in the parish’s new
library.
