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
Religious Patriarch Filaret (Feodor Romanov) (1553–1633), Patriarch of Moscow 1612–1633, father of Tsar Michael I of Russia Philaret Drozdov (1782–1867), born Vasily, Metropolitan of Moscow 1821–1867, Orthodox saint Philaret Gumilevsky (1805–1866), Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Kharkov 1848–1859, and Archbishop of Chernigov 1859–1866, Orthodox saint Filaret Scriban (1811–1873), Romanian Orthodox titular bishop of Stavropoleos and writer Philaret Voznesensky (1903–1985), Metropolitan and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia 1964–1985 Philaret Vakhromeyev (1935–2021), Belarusian Orthodox Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk 1978–2013 Filaret Denysenko (1929–2026), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate since 1995
Other Filaret Kolessa (1871–1947), Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, composer, musicologist and literary critic Filaret Barbu (1903–1984), Romanian composer Filaret Pakun (1912–2002), Soviet Russian painter Filaret Galchev (born 1963), Russian-Greek businessman
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 (15th century), medieval Italian architect Philarète Chasles (1798–1873), French critic