Philaret (2)

Philaret archbishop of Tschernigow, who died in 1866, was one of the most learned historians of the Russian Church. He is the author of a work on Cyril and Methodius, the Apostles of the Slavs (1846; Germ. transl. Milan, 1848). He also wrote on the Service of the Russian Church in the Pre-Mongolian Time (1847): — History of the Russian Church (4th ed. 1862, 5 volumes): Review of Russian Literature from 862 to 1858 (1859 2 volumes). (B.P.)