Hilarion

Hilarion (from Greek: "the happy one") is the Greek form of the male given name Hilarius and the name of:

• Hilarion of Gaza (291–371), Christian ascetic, hermit and saint
• Hilarion of Kiev (reign from 1051 to 1054), the first metropolitan of Kiev to come from the Kievan Rus
• Hilarion of Rostov (10th century), Bishop of Rostov

Hilarion or Ilarion is the first name of:

• Hilarion Alfejew (* 1966), Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Wolokolamsk and head of the Foreign Office of the Moscow Patriarchate
• Hilarion Ballande (1820–1887), French actor, playwright and theater director
• Hilarion Capucci (1922–2017), Syrian Greek Catholic theologian, auxiliary bishop of the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch and political activist
• Hilarion-François de Chevigné de Boischollet (1746-1812), Roman Catholic bishop of the French diocese of Sées
• Ilarion Ciobanu (1931-2008), Romanian actor
• Hilarión Daza (1840–1894), President of Bolivia
• Hilarion von Dorostol (1913–2009), Metropolitan of the Diocese of Dorostol of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Hilarion Kapral (* 1948), bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad
• Ilarion Makariopolski (1812–1875), Bulgarian clergyman
• Hilarion Petzold (* 1944), university professor, founder of the "Fritz Perls Institute"
• Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), Serbian Orthodox monk priest and abbot of the Grgeteg monastery
• Illarion Wassiljewitsch Wassiltschikow (1776–1847), Russian general and statesman

additional

• Hilarion - pseudonym of Karl Otto Schmidt (1904–1977)
• Ilarion - spiritual name of Ivan Ohijenko (1882–1972)

See also:

• Hillary ,
• Hilaire ,
• St. Hilarion