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Upon Archbishop Andronicus' arrest on June 17, Bishop Theophanes accepted the charge of the [[Permian diocese]] and moved to Perm' on June 22. But his tenure was brief - at the end of the summer of 1918 the bishop was arrested. On December 11, 1918, a few days before Perm' was taken by the White troops, St. Theophanes accepted a martyr's death together with two priests and five laymen at the hands of the Bolsheviks. In the freezing temperature of -30°C on the bank of the Kama River Bishop Theophanes was repeatedly dipped into a hole cut in the ice while he was still alive, after which he was drowned, and the priests and laymen were drowned with him.
Hieromartyr Theophanes was [[canonized]] as a locally venerated [[saint]] of the Permian diocese in 1998 and glorified for universal veneration among the saints at the [[Jubilee Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church]] on 13-16 of August, 2000. His memory is celebrated on [[December 11|11/24 of December]].
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