 In 1970, he was appointed to a fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford.In 1982 he was consecrated to the episcopacy as an auxiliary bishop with the title Bishop of Diokleia (in Phrygia) in the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.Following his consecration, Ware continued to teach at the University of Oxford and served in the Greek Orthodox parish in Oxford.