Tags: Christian Bishop.
The material from this article should be included in Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate and History of Christianity in Ukraine.Patriarch Filaret (secular name in Ukrainian Mykhailo Antonovych Denysenko in Russian Mikhail Antonovich Denisenko officially His Holiness the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’ – Ukraine Filaret; born 23 January 1929) is the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (since 1995) and a former Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (until 1992; excommunicated in 1997).
