He was sentenced to death in 1935 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and espionage on behalf of the Holy See and executed soon after.

His master's degree thesis, "Bishop Bartholomew", is based on a detailed analysis of the Greek and Hebrew texts of Habakkuk, complemented with the Slavic manuscripts.

On 28 July 1921, the bishop of Sergiev Posad Vicariate of the Moscow Diocese, appointed Remov to a position at the Trinity Sergius Lavra.

"[4] Two fellow members of the Orthodox Hierarchy later signed depositions admitting, in the words of the Soviet secret police, to having, "participated in illegal gatherings at Archbishop Bartholomew's apartment."

In 1928, Remov began meeting with Pie Eugène Neveu, A.A., formerly the parish priest of the mining town of Makiivka, Ukraine, who had been secretly consecrated as a Bishop by Michel d'Herbigny in 1926 and installed in the Church of St. Louis des Français as the secret Apostolic Administrator for the Catholic Church in Moscow Oblast.

"[8] As a further protection from arrest, Archbishop Bartholomew ordered the monastery's Archimandrites to refer to each monk and nun by a false name on the lists presented to the Diocesan Council.

'"[9] On February 25, 1933, the Vatican released an official document signed by Bishop Michel d'Herbigny, which established the titular diocese of Sergiyev Posad for the Russian Greek Catholic Church and appointed Remov, "already possessing the rank of Archbishop in the Eastern Rite", as the titular bishop.

A second document, dated July 3, 1933, appointed Remov as suffragan Apostolic Administrator in Moscow for Catholics of the Eastern Rite.

The General Archive of the Augustinians in Rome preserved the correspondence between Metropolitan Bartholomew and Bishop Neveu, which proves his passionate belief in the Russian Greek Catholic Church.

[10] In the fall of 1934, the NKVD arrested Pavel Velikanov, the organiser of a sect called "The Fourth International of Spirit and Truth".

Under interrogation, Velikanov revealed that an illegal Orthodox convent and monastery existed at the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin at Putinki.

[11] On February 18, 1935, the NKVD received a letter from certain Putinki parishioners, who alleged, "It would appear that the closure of the monastery has not eliminated the monastic spirit, which has recently begun to manifest itself with particular intensity.

"[12] Along with 21 others, Remov was arrested again on 21 February 1935 and was accused of being, "a member of the Catholic group of a counterrevolutionary organization attached to the illegal Petrovsky Monastery" and of anti-Soviet agitation.

"[10] After a brief detention period in the Butyrka Prison, where he was sent shortly after his arrest, Remov was further charged with, "betrayal of the Motherland and espionage on behalf of the Vatican.