Commemoration
Theophanes is commemorated individually on October 11. He is also numbered among the venerable fathers of the Near Caves of Saint Anthony, whose general Synaxis is kept on September 28, and among all the venerable fathers of the Kiev Caves commemorated on the second Sunday of Great Lent.
The general Synaxis of the fathers of the Near Caves originated in 1670, during restoration work on the caves following earthquake damage, when some of the relics of the ancient ascetics were uncovered. The celebration was originally observed on the first Saturday after the Leave-taking of the Exaltation of the Cross; in 1886 Metropolitan Platon moved it to September 28 to avoid overlap with the Far Caves commemoration on August 28. Approximately eighty saints are identified in the Near Caves list, though it is noted that not all the names of the fathers of the Kiev Caves are known.