Theophanes of Peripherion

Holy Hierarch Theophanes of Peripherion, metropolitan of that city, is known from his life only by the fact that he was metropolitan of that city and that he departed this life after the year 1353. No other certain details of his birth, shepherding or deeds have been preserved.

The saint's glorification was made by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and on 21 August 2007 his name was entered in the calendar of the Russian Church by a decision of its Holy Synod. The Church remembers him on 3 May, old style, which is 16 May in the new calendar.