About the book: 1999 / Patriarch Philotheus (Greek Πατριάρχης Φιλόθεος, in the world Foka Kokkinos, Greek Φωκάς Κόκκινος; about 1300, Thessaloniki - 1379, Constantinople) - Patriarch Constantinople, who occupied the throne twice: November 1353-1354 and from 1364-1376. Author of a number of lives, theological and polemical works, hymns and prayers, editor of the liturgy and the Teaching Gospel. Born into a poor Thessalonian family; labored in Sinai and Athos; at the end of the civil war of 1341-1347, he became the metropolitan of Heraclea of ​​Thracia. After the removal of Callistus from the patriarchal throne, who refused to crown Cantacuzene's son Matthew, Cantacuzene was appointed Patriarch by Emperor John VI. In November 1354, due to the abdication of John VI, he was forced to leave the patriarchal throne and retire to Athos. After the death of Callistus, he occupied the patriarchal see for the second time. During the pro-Genoese coup of Andronikos IV in 1376, he was overthrown along with Emperor John V Palaiologos and a year later died in captivity. During the period of “hesychast disputes” he defended the teachings of Gregory Palamas and his supporters. In 1368, he initiated the canonization of Gregory Palamas. Together with John VI Cantacuzene, he sought to preserve the unity of the Russian Metropolis under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus' living in Moscow, which is reflected in a number of his letters to Rus' and in the decrees of the Patriarchal Synod. In 1354, he approved the transfer of the metropolitan see from Kyiv to Vladimir-on-Klyazma and appointed Alexy Byakont as Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus' with a stay in Moscow. In 1375, he installed the Bulgarian Cyprian as Metropolitan of “Kyiv, Russia and Lithuania” with the right to occupy the All-Russian See upon the death of Metropolitan Alexy. Author of the Diataxes of the Divine Liturgy and the All-Night Vigil. His memory is celebrated on the 5th week of Great Lent, as well as on October 11 (after Julian calendar) as a famous ascetic, monk and guardian of Orthodoxy, he is revered together with Saints Photius the Great, Mark Eugenicus, Metropolitan of Ephesus and St. Gregory Palamas. The pages in curly brackets { } indicate the pages of the publication: The Path to Sacred Silence: Little-Known Works of the Holy Hesychast Fathers / Compilation, general editing, preface and notes by A.G. Dunaeva. M., 1999. pp. 139–146 (notes at the bottom of the page). The same brackets highlight the later clarification.