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Filaret, Vasily Drosdov: see Philaret, Vasily Drosdov.
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Filaret is a male name of Greek origin, commonly used as a monastic name in the Orthodox Church, and may refer to:
People:
- Patriarch Filaret (Feodor Romanov) (1553-1633), patriarch of Moscow from 1612-1633, father of Tsar Michael I of Russia
- Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1782-1867), or Vasily Drozdov, patriarch of Moscow from 1821-1867
- Filaret Kolessa (1871-1947), Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, composer, musicologist and literary critic
- Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy since 1995
- Kirill Vakhromeev, Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk since 1978
Other uses:
- Filaret Association, a Lithuanian political organization founded in 1820 by Tomasz Zan
- Filaret Station, the first railway station in Romania, now a bus station, see History of Bucharest
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