 He is one of the best-known contemporary Eastern Orthodox hierarchs and theologians.From 1966 to 2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford.Born Timothy Richard Ware in 1934 to an Anglican family in Bath, Somerset, England, he was educated at Westminster School in London (to which he had won a King's Scholarship) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a double first in classics as well as reading theology.