MEET ABBOT PLACID SOLARI
Abbot Placid Solari, O.S.B., a native of Richmond, Virginia, was professed as a monk of Belmont Abbey in 1975. He was ordained in 1980 by The Most Reverend Michael Begley, Bishop of Charlotte. He served at St. Michael Church in Gastonia, NC, from 1979-1982, and has assisted in various pastoral and educational ministries in the Diocese of Charlotte. In November of 1999, Abbot Placid was elected the 8th Abbot of Belmont Abbey.
Abbot Placid is the Chancellor of Belmont Abbey College, and has previously served the college as an assistant professor in the Theology Department, as Vice President for Academic Affairs, and as interim President.
President’s Welcome Message
Belmont Abbey College is a college truly in the service of our Lord. It’s by Divine Providence that this college was begun and that we continue to this day to serve our youth, to serve the Lord, and to continue to serve this beautiful country.
As interim president of Belmont Abbey, I am pleased to welcome you to our website and, hopefully, in person when you make a visit to our college. The Abbey is a place rooted in the Benedictine values and is a place for friendships, for discovery, and for joyful futures. When you do finally visit, you’ll be welcomed just as Christ, for that is our way.
Each one of you has a God-given vocation that this college is dedicated to helping you discern.
Take a leap of faith and come to the Abbey and unlock the future that God has made for you.
May God bless you, and I look forward to welcoming you, hopefully, to your future home.
I believe that God is calling the entire Belmont Abbey family to be truly excellent so that in all things God may be glorified.
Discover your potential
The education at BAC gets so far down into the soul, that you discover who you are. There’s something very important about the education here — pursuing those most human things in us, cultivating our intellectual capacities — that we end up finding and discovering ourselves, in a way that is very unique to the college experience.
ELISA TORRES 2017
Thomas More Scholar, Theology
Doctoral Candidate University of Dallas
