Filaret

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Filaret is a male name of Greek origin. It is used mostly (but not exclusively) as a monastic name in the Orthodox Church:

• Feodor Romanov, patriarch, 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)

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• 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.
• The Filaret Association was a student political movement at Vilnius University, suppressed along with the Philomaths, its mother organization, in 1823 by the Imperial Russian government.