A EULOGY FOR PATRIARCH FILARET, FRIEND OF THE UKRAINIAN CHURCH IN THE DIASPORA
The Orthodox Archdiocese of America’s Official Eulogy for the Late, Thrice-Blessed Patriarch, +++Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine A Memorial Declaration of the Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in East Asia Glory to Christ! Glory Forever! “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Psalm 116:15) With Christian sorrow tempered by the hope of the Resurrection, we commend to the mercy of Almighty God His Holiness Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine, whose repose marks the passing of one of the last hierarchs formed in the great upheavals that reshaped Orthodoxy in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, leaving an indelible impression on us and our Holy Church. The Patriarch’s life belonged to that generation of bishops who endured persecution, witnessed the fall of militant atheism, and then struggled to restore ecclesiastical life amid the new dangers of nationalism, jurisdictional rivalry, and political war...
