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
See also
Philaretos (disambiguation) Filarete, medieval Italian architect