Editing Filaret Denysenko (section)

{{Short description|Ukrainian Orthodox religious leader (born 1929)}}
{{POV|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = [[His Holiness]] and [[His Beatitude|Beatitude]]
| name = Filaret
| title = [[Archbishop]] and [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of [[Kyiv]] – Mother of the Rus Cities and of [[Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia|Galicia]], Patriarch of All [[Kievan Rus'|Rus-Ukraine]], Holy [[Archimandrite]] of the Holy Assumption [[Kyiv Pechersk Lavra|Kyiv-Pechersk]] and [[Pochayiv Lavra|Pochaev Lavras]]
| honorific-suffix = 
| image = Wp filaretdenisenko.jpg
| church = [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate|Kyiv Patriarchate]]
| see = Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine
| birth_name = Mykhailo Antonovych Denysenko
| enthroned = July 1995
| ended = 15 December 2018
| predecessor = [[Joasaph Leliukhin|Ioasaph II]] ([[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)]]) <br /> [[Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk)|Volodymyr]] ([[Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate]])
| successor = Metropolitan [[Epiphanius I (Metropolitan of Kyiv)|Epiphany I]] ([[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]]) <br /> himself as "Honorary Patriarch"
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1929|1|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Blahodatne, Amvrosiivka urban hromada|Blahodatne]], [[Amvrosiivka Raion]], [[Donetsk Oblast|Donetsk]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]
| ordination = 18 June 1951
| consecration = 4 February 1962
| consecrated_by = [[Pimen I of Moscow]]
| signature = Philaret (Denisenko) Signature 2014.png
| caption = Filaret in 2013
}}

'''Patriarch Filaret''' ([[secular name]] ''Mykhailo Antonovych Denysenko'' Михайло Антонович Денисенко, born 23 January 1929) is a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] religious leader, currently serving as the primate and Patriarch of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate]]. The [[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]], that he [[Filaret (Denysenko)#Conflict|left in 2019]], views him as the Honorary Patriarch [[emeritus]], while the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] recognises him as former [[Metropolitan of Kyiv]].<ref name=":30" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pomisna.info/uk/episcopate-post/filaret-denisenko/|title=Filaret (Denysenko)|website=www.pomisna.info}}</ref> He was formerly the [[Metropolis of Kiev (Patriarchate of Moscow)|Metropolitan of Kiev]] and the Exarch of Ukraine in the [[Patriarch of Moscow|Patriarchate of Moscow]] (1966–1992). After joining the Kyiv Patriarchate, he was [[defrocked]] and in 1997 [[ex-communication|excommunicated]] by the ROC.

On 11 October 2018, the [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]] reinstated him in church communion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.patriarchate.org/-/communiq-1|title=Announcement (11/10/2018). - Announcements - The Ecumenical Patriarchate|website=www.patriarchate.org}}</ref> However, while restored to the episcopate, the Ecumenical Patriarchate never recognised him as Patriarch and views him as the former Metropolitan of Kyiv.<ref name=":30">{{Cite web|url=http://spzh.news/en/news/56602-fanar-schitajet-filareta-prostym-jepiskopom-bez-kafedry|title=Phanar considers Filaret an ordinary bishop without an episcopal see|date=14 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref><ref name=":69">{{Cite web|url=https://www.romfea.gr/epikairotita-xronika/25568-apokleistiko-bartholomaios-se-onoufrio-den-mporeite-na-exete-pleon-ton-titlo-kiebou|title=ΑΠΟΚΛΕΙΣΤΙΚΟ {{!}} Βαρθολομαίος σε Ονούφριο: ''Δεν μπορείτε να έχετε πλέον τον τίτλο Κιέβου''|date=7 December 2018|website=ROMFEA|language=el-gr|access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref><ref>[http://users.sch.gr/markmarkou/1962/new/filaretos_denisenko.htm Ο Σεβασμιώτατος Μητροπολίτης πρώην Κιέβου και Γαλικίας κύριος Φιλάρετος. (γεν. 1929). (Εκκλησία της Ουκρανίας).]</ref><ref name="ecpatrukr">{{cite web |url=http://users.sch.gr/markmarkou/2019/ukr2019.htm |title=ΙΕ. ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ|language=el |date=2019-02-16 |access-date=2019-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecupatria.org/2019/06/08/ecumenical-patriarch-met-the-national-union-of-journalists-of-ukraine/|title=Ecumenical Patriarch met the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine|date=2019-06-08|website=Ecumenical Patriarchate Permanent Delegation to the World Council of Churches|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref>

On 15 December 2018, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate united with the [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unian.info/politics/10378089-unification-council-taking-place-at-kyiv-s-st-sophia-cathedral-live-video.html|title=Unification council taking place at Kyiv's St. Sophia Cathedral (Live video)|date=15 December 2018|website=unian.info|language=en|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref> and some members of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|Ukrainian Orthodox Church (MP)]]<ref name=":802">{{Cite web|url=https://orthodoxie.com/en/the-council-started-late/|title=The council started late|last=Cazabonne|first=Emma|date=2018-12-15|website=Orthodoxie.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref> into the [[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]]; the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate thus ceased to exist.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46575548|title=Ukraine priests establish new Church|date=2018-12-15|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-12-18|language=en-GB}}</ref>