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In August of 1913 Fr. Sergius entered the brotherhood of the [[Valaam Monastery]] where he was shorn into into [[monasticism]] the following year under the name of Theophanes, and granted the title of [[archimandrite]]. The same year he became an inspector of the Balashov Spritual College, and in 1916 he moved to Perm’, where he later became the rector of the Permian Spiritual Seminary and the archimandrite of the Solikamsk Monastery of the Holy Trinity.
His elevation to the [[bishop|episcopate]] of Solikamsk, [[vicar]] of the Permian diocese, took place in the main cathedral of Perm’ on February 26, 1917. The newly consecrated bishop was granted to use the [[episcopal staffcrozier]] of [[St. Stephen the Enlightener of Great Perm’]].
Before the beginning of August of 1917, when Bishop Theophanes had to temporarily assume the post of [[Andronik of Perm|Archbishop Andronicus]] who departed to the [[Local Council of the Russian Church]], he almost never exited the borders of his vicariate. However, in order to truly come to know his flock he went around his whole vicariate on foot.
