Word: filarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, who presided, later explains in his elegant headquarters residence that the surviving 4,000 churches are "more or less enough," despite the overflow visible at the cathedral. Parish priests, he adds, get a minimum of 150 rubles ($225) a month, often more, and usually a free, furnished apartment, sufficient to enable them to get by comfortably in the Soviet Union...