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Metropolitan Philaret
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He resigned on 25 December 2013, and was succeed by Metropolitan Pavel. Born in 1935 in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Kirill attended the Moscow Theological Academy in 1954 after spending a year in the seminary. During the course of his studies, he chose the name Filaret when he received the monastic tonsure in 1959.
Two years later, he graduated from the Academy with a doctorate in theology.
After serving in Minsk, Kaliningrad and Moscow, Filaret was appointed Metropolitan of Minsk and the entire Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1978. In 1989, as the collapse of the Soviet Union was imminent, Filaret was appointed to become the patriarchal exarch of the new country of Belarus.
He also served a short term in the Supreme Council of Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic as a people"s deputy.
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