Schema-Archimandrite Serapheim (Travassaros) of the Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, also Serapheim Savvaitis the "Elder of the Desert", or Serapheim Agiotafitis, born Stamatios Travassaros, was the Igumen and spiritual father of the Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified, in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank, from 1957 to 2003. He was also the founder of the Sanctuary of the Shepherds' Field in Beit Sahour, begun in 1971 as a metochion of the Lavra of St. Sabbas and consecrated in 1989.