Filaret
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Filaret is an ecclesiastic name, taken by some clergymen of the Orthodox Church:
- Feodor Romanov, father of Tsar Michael I of Russia
- Fyodor Amfiteatrov (1779 - 1857), Metropolitan of Kiev and Halych
- Vasily Drozdov (1782 - 1867), Metropolitan of Moscow in 1821-1867
- Dmitri Gumilevsky (1805 - 1866), archbishop of Chernihiv, notable as theologian and the historian of the church
- Mikhail Filaretov (1824 - 1882), bishop of Riga
- Kirill Vakhromeev (b. 1935) current Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk
- Mykhailo Denysenko, currently of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy
- Filaret, Metropolitan of Bucharest (1735-1794)
- The Filaret area in Bucharest, named after the metropolitan Filaret
- The Filaret Station was the first railway station in Romania; it is now a bus station.