Denisenko Mikhail Antonovich (Filaret)

Genus. in 1929. From 1966 to 1990 - Exarch of Ukraine (ROC), in May-June 1990 - locum tenens of the patriarchal throne of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as one of the candidates for the patriarchal throne at the Local Council in June 1990; from 1990 to 1992 - Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine. In 1991, he became a supporter of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. In 1992, with part of the clergy and laity, he left the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, forming the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, which is not recognized by any of the local Orthodox Churches. Since October 20, 1995, he has been its primate with the title “Patriarch of Kiev and All Rus'-Ukraine.”