Career
He was the Cypriot Minister of Justice and Public Order from 2006 to 2008. Sophocleous is a law graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was appointed Minister of Justice and Public Order in 2006, and he stayed in post until Tassos Papadopoulos lost the Cypriot presidency at the 2008 presidential election.
Sophocleous took the seat of Kyriakos Mavronikolas in the European Parliament following the latter"s resignation in 2012.