Filaret
# Filaret

Filaret (Philaret) is a male given name of Greek origin, commonly used as a monastic name in the Orthodox Church, literally meaning, "lover of virtue"). It may refer to:

## People

* Patriarch Filaret (Feodor Romanov) (1553–1633), patriarch of Moscow from 1612 to 1633, father of Tsar Michael I of Russia
* Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1782–1867), or Vasily Drozdov, patriarch of Moscow from 1821 to 1867
* Filaret Barbu (1903–1984), Romanian composer
* Filaret Kolessa (1871–1947), Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, composer, musicologist and literary critic
* Filaret Scriban (1811–1873), Romanian theologian
* Filaret (Denysenko), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy since 1995
* Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk from 1978 to 2013

## 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
* Filaret, name of a hill and plain in Bucharest, where the Constitution of 15 June 1848 was acclaimed
* Filaret, a village in Giurgiţa Commune, Dolj County, Romania
