"Kallistos Ware", acrylic on canvas, by Bishop Maxim, 2022

Peaceful look, without the need to control. As if experiencing the weight of the blessing given to him, the Bishop lifts the blessed weight of the Divine gift he has received and says: “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Kallistos Ware is an English bishop and theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1982, he has held the titular bishopric of Diokleia in Phrygia, later made a titular metropolitan bishopric in 2007, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. From 1966 to 2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford.