Philaret (Vakhromeyev)

Metropolitan Philaret (Russian: Филарет; Belarusian: Філарэт; 21 March 1935 – 12 January 2021), born Kirill Varfolomeyevich Vakhromeyev (Russian: Кирилл Варфоломеевич Вахромеев) was the emeritus Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, the Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus and the leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church that is an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church. He resigned on 25 December 2013, and was succeeded by Paul (Ponomaryov).