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[[Image:Placide-Deseille.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Archimandrite ]] Placide Deseille in St. Sergius Institute in Paris, [[May 25]], 2004]][[Archimandrite]] '''Placide Deseille''' is a theologian and spiritual father of the Orthodox Church in France.
== Biography Life==Born in 1926into a Roman-Catholic family, Father Placide first became a [[monk ]] of the Cistercian [[Abbey ]] of Bellefontaine in 1942, at the age of sixteen.
In search of the authentic sources of Christianity and [[monasticism]], he founded in 1966 , with friends who were also monks , a [[monastery ]] of the Byzantine Rite in Aubazine in Corrèze.
In 1977 , the monks decided to become OrthodoxChristians. They are received into the Orthodox Church on [[June 19]], 1977 and . In February 1978, they became monks of at [[Simonopetra Monastery (Athos)|Simonopetra Monastery]] at [[Mount Athos]] Simonos Petra. Returned Returning to France shortly afterthereafter, Father Fr. Placide founded established the monastery of St. Anthony the Great, at Saint-Laurent-en-Royans (Drôme) in the Vercors, and became the becoming its [[abbot]].
He has taught patristics at the Orthodox [[St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France)|Saint-Serge St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute]] in Paris.
== Works ==
=== Travaux publiés ===
*''Les saints moines d’Orient, IVème siècle'' (coll. « Les écrits des saints »), Ed. du Soleil levant, Namur 1959.
*''L’Évangile au désert'', Les Ed. du Cerf, Paris 1965 ; 2ème éd., O.E.I.L. / YMCA-PRESS, Paris 1985 ; 3ème éd. Les Ed. du Cerf, Paris 1999. Trad. en italien, Ed. Qiqajon, Comunità di Bose 2000. Trad. grecque : Ed. Tinos, Athènes s.d.
* «Saint Augustin et le Filioque», dans ''Messager de l’Exarchat du Patriarche russe en Europe occidentale'', n° 109-112, janvier-décembre 1982 ; repris et développé dans ''Aux origines d'une divergence : saint Augustin et la théologie trinitaire'', Monastère Saint-Antoine-le-Grand, 2007.
