 On 14 April 1958, at the age of 24, he embraced the Orthodox Christian faith.He describes his first contacts with Orthodoxy and the growing attraction of the Orthodox Church in an autobiographical text entitled "My Journey to the Orthodox Church", While still a layman, he spent six months in Canada at a monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.Thoroughly conversant in modern Greek, Ware became an Orthodox monk at the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Patmos, Greece.