High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov) (23 September 1896 – 11 July 1993), also Elder Sophrony, was best known as the disciple and biographer of St Silouan the Athonite and compiler of St Silouan`s works, and as the founder of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Tolleshunt Knights, Maldon, Essex, England. From Orthodoxwiki.