Patriarch of Belarus biography

Grandfather, Alexander Ivanovich, the famous Yaroslavl merchant, has been a hereditary nobleman since the year. Father, Bartholomew Aleksandrovich, teacher of the Gnesinsky Music School at the Moscow Conservatory, author of the textbook "Elementary theory of music." For compiling a church singing textbook for spiritual schools, he was awarded the Order of St. Mother, Alexandra Feodorovna Vakhromeeva, and the older sister, Olga Bartholomeevna Vakhromeeva, were also teachers of Moscow music schools.

In the year, after graduating from secondary and music schools, he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary. In the year he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and entered the Moscow Theological Academy.

In the spring of the year he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy with the degree of candidate of theology, Istal, a teacher of Moscow spiritual schools. In the year he was appointed senior assistant to the inspector, and in the year - inspector of the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary. In the fall of the year, he was appointed head of the graduate student of the Moscow Theological Academy and secretary of the Holy Synod Commission on Christian Unity.

By the Decree of the Holy Synod of October 8, Archimandrite Filaret was elected Bishop Tikhvinsky, Vicar of the Leningrad Diocese. Bishop Hirotony was committed on October 24 in the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Since May 14 - Bishop Dmitrovsky, Vicar of the Moscow Diocese, rector of the Moscow Theological Academy. He participated in the activities of the commission for the preparation and conduct of the local cathedral of the year, on the same days he temporarily performed the duties of the governor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

From September 6 to August 25, he temporarily ruled the Kalinin diocese. In the year he was elected an honorary member of the Moscow and Leningrad Theological Academies. Since November 16, he temporarily ruled the Korsun diocese. From the year he was the deputy chairman of the commission for the preparation and conduct of celebrations dedicated to the celebration of the Flight of the Baptism of Rus', the head of the working group for participation in the celebration of the anniversary of other churches and on public problems.

Since August 26 - member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. He was the chairman of the International Preparatory Committee, and then the chairman of the World Conference “Religious figures for saving the Holy Gift of Life from a nuclear disaster”, held in May in Moscow. In years, he was elected chairman of the Public Commission of the Soviet Committee for the Protection of the World for Relations with Religious Circles protruding for the world; He was the vice-president of the Society of the USSR-Greece, vice-president of the Association of the Creative Intelligentsia “World of Culture”, a member of the board of the USSR-Cyprus society, was part of the Soviet Committee for European Security and Cooperation.

In connection with the expansion of the activities of the Belarusian exarchate, he filed a petition and was relieved of his post of chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate with his permanent member of the Holy Synod. In the same year, he became a member of the Council of the Belarusian Branch of the International Fund of Slavic Writing and Slavic cultures.

From January to December, the People’s Deputy of the USSR. In the year, on the initiative of Metropolitan Filaret, an independent Grodno diocese was revived, founded in the year and forcibly abolished in the year. The ruling bishop was appointed Archbishop Valentin Mishchuk, who managed the diocese from February 18 to February 26. From December 28, he was appointed chairman of the Synodal Theological Commission; In the years, he was the chairman of the Commission on Christological Dialogue with the ancient Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Since February 3, the Holy Archimandrite of the Annunciation Lyaden Monastery. From February 26 to February 4, he temporarily ruled the Grodno diocese. The successor of Metropolitan Filaret at the department was the bishop from the year Archbishop Artemy Kishchenko; - From December 28 to July 17, he temporarily ruled Polotsk, and from February 28 to July 4, the Mogilev dioceses.

Since July 27 - a member of the inter -gran presence of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the year he took part in the preparation and celebration on the territory of Belarus of the Flight of the Baptism of Rus'. The church celebrations, which took place in Moscow and Kyiv, ended on July 29 in the Minsk Moscow Claim, for which Metropolitan Filaret served the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill and the Primate and representatives of the local Orthodox churches.

The Holy Synod expressed heartfelt gratitude for the “summer archpastoral nourishment of Belarus, which is marked by outstanding church achievements, such as the discovery of 10 dioceses, multiple increase in the number of parishes, the opening of new monasteries, spiritual schools, the establishment of a benevolent and constructive dialogue with state authorities and public organizations, maintaining a decent level of intercontaluation relations, participation external activities of the Moscow Patriarchate.

"During the summer period of the stay of Metropolitan Filaret, at the head of the Belarusian exarchate, historical and new Orthodox dioceses were revived. 24 women's and 10 male monasteries are open. The number of Orthodox parishes increased several times, hundreds of new ones were built and many destroyed temples and church buildings were restored.

Vladyka led the bishop's hirotony of nine shepherds for the Belarusian departments and ordained hundreds of faithful children of the Church of Christ into the sacred centuries. The Belarusian Orthodox Church was glorified by many local saints. The celebrations of the Council of Belarusian saints were established and later it includes the names of the 14 saints of God, who were working on the Belarusian land and the cathedral of the new martyr and confessors of the land of the Belarusian.

The spiritual rise was facilitated by the revival of the Minsk Theological Seminary and the opening of the Minsk Theological Academy. Spiritual schools appeared in Minsk, elephant and Orsha, the school of bellows at the Minsk Diocesan Directorate and the school of catechists of the Minsk diocese. The seminary was opened in Vitebsk and established the theological faculty of European State University, transformed over time to the Institute for Theology of the Belarusian State University.

In the year, the spiritual and educational center of the Belarusian Orthodox Church was built, where the Theological Academy moved. Publishing and educational activities came to a new level: the publishing house of the Belarusian exarchate was organized, church newspapers, magazines and almanacs were revived and founded; A number of church-public associations were established, such as, for example, the International Public Association "Christian Educational Center named after Saints Methodius and Cyril." The tradition of holding annual forums and conferences with the participation of theologians, creative and scientific intelligentsia, religious figures of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Near and Far Abroad, as well as representatives of state bodies was laid.

Metropolitan Filaret repeatedly spoke at Belarusian and foreign conferences with reports, spoke in the media on the urgent and acute problems of our time. The key role was played by Metropolitan Filaret in the revival of the activities of sisterhood of mercy in Belarus, which began in December, when a constituent meeting of sisterhood was held under his chairmanship in honor of the Holy Righteous Sofia of Slutskaya at the Minsk Cathedral.

Soon, Orthodox brotherhoods began to form, one of the oldest was the Minsk Brotherhood of the Vilnius martyrs. Metropolitan Filaret initiated the conduct of church-scientific research on the history of Orthodoxy in Belarus and blessed the works to translate the Holy Scriptures into the modern Belarusian language. A sign of the latest stage of church life in Belarus was the reconstruction of the Cross of the Monk Euphrosyne Polotsk.

The shrine consecrated in the year became a truly symbol of the spiritual revival of Belarusian lands. Over the years, with the blessing of the exarch, silver cancer has been recreated for the relics of the reverend Euphrosyne Polotsk, the facsimile edition of the manuscript Slutsk Gospel, a monument of the 16th century, saw light. Metropolitan Filaret took an active personal part in the development of the draft Law of the Republic of Belarus “On the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations”, in the new version of the law, a wording was recorded on the decisive role of the Orthodox Church in the development of spiritual, state and cultural traditions of the Belarusian people.

” The agreement on cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Belarusian Orthodox Church concluded in the year laid the foundation for church-state relations in Belarus and had no analogues in the post-Soviet space; On its basis, agreements are concluded and the programs of cooperation of recent decades are signed. After leaving the rest, Metropolitan Filaret took part in significant church celebrations, public and state events and was present at meetings of the Belarusian Exarchate Synod, including the first meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church for the first time in Minsk on October 15.

The last years of his life, he performed worship in the house church in honor of the cathedral of the Belarusian saints of the Minsk Diocesan Directorate. The last time Metropolitan Filaret prayed for the liturgy on December 14 in the house church of the Minsk Diocesan Directorate in honor of the Cathedral of Belarusian saints on the day of his namesake. In December, in connection with a worsening well -being, he was hospitalized on January 12, in a year of life, died in the hospital from the consequences of coronaviral infection.

He was buried in the small fraternal cemetery behind the altar of the Crusader Church of the Assumption Zhirovichi Monastery. The end of the school year in theological schools. Speech when calling in Bishop Tikhvinsky. Staying in Moscow of the delegation of the Church of Constantinople. Welcome word to the participants of the meetings of the KhMK working committee at dinner on July 3.

On a visit to friendship about a trip to about. Cyprus in the cityChurch and business veneration of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius in Russia. Report read on May 8, Clement of Okrid. Moscow Theological Schools under the leadership of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy. The patriotic appearance of the Holy Patriarch Alexy. About Filior to discussion with the old -Catholic church.

The report was read at a meeting of the inter-Orthodox theological commission on dialogue with the Starocatolic Church, which was held in Bonn from June 22 to 28, the word at the opening of the 2nd theological interview on December 12, a word on a certificate in Moscow Theological Schools on June 15. Theological basis of the peacekeeping activity of the Church.

Theological works, Sat. Report at the International Inter-religious Meeting in Moscow on October 1, speech at the IV meeting of the mixed theological commission on the Orthodox Catholic dialogue. The word when the bishop's rod is presented to the bishop of Dusseldorf Longin on October 11, a report at a meeting of the Ministry of State Pedagogical University on January 26 of the year.

Speech at the opening of the World Conference "Religious figures for saving the sacred gift of life from a nuclear disaster." Report at a meeting of chapters and representatives of churches and religious associations in the Soviet Union, dedicated to summing up the results of the conference of Trinity-Sergius Lavra, July 6 The word when the bishop's rod is presented to Bishop Kliment Kapalin.

Speech at the opening of the World Conference. The word at the opening of the meetings of the "round table". Speech when handing the Order of St. Speech at the anniversary ecumenical meeting in Tomaskirkh, Lepzig on the occasion of the flying of the birth of Martin Luther on November 11. Speech when he was presenting to him a diploma of Dr. Theology "Honoris Kauz." The introductory word at the opening of the Conference "Round table" on April 2, inter -religious peacekeeping activities of the Russian Orthodox Church.

A report on the symposium of the collegium of the doctors of the Debrezen Reformed Academy on August 22, the introductory word at the opening of the conference of the round table on February 11, a welcome message to young Christians from the socialist countries who arrived at a meeting in Suzdal. A sermon in the cathedral of St. Petra in Geneva on Sunday November 17, a performance at a meeting at the “round table” in the Soviet Committee of the Solidarity of the countries of Asia and Africa on October 9.

The establishment of Christianity in Rus' is a speech in the delivery of a diploma of a doctor of theology "Honoris Kauza" at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in the city