Jules Leroy (1903 in

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– 1979 in Chaptelat) was a French priest and researcher in the domains of Syriac, Coptic and

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, art and architecture. As a novice he joined the French Benedictine congregation of Solesmes in their exile on the

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. From 1930 to 1933 Leroy studied at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome. Leroy's early researches in iconography of Pre-Chalcedonian Christian churches were guided by Henri Seyrig in the Lebanon and by the historian of art, André Grabar. A researcher in the French

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, Leroy was attached to the Institut d' Etudes et de Recherches d' Ethiopie in

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* René-Georges Coquin, Necrologie, Syria, Vol. 57 (1980), p. 502-503. * Palmer, A.N. and Ginkel, J., 'Leroy, Jules' in ''Dictionary of Art'' 19 (1996), p. 231-232. ; Selected publications: * Les Manuscrits Syriaques à peinture conservés dans les Bibliothèques d'Europe et d' Orient. Contribution à l' étude et à l' iconographie des églises de langue syriaque, Geuthner, 1964. * Ethiopie, archéologie et culture, Desclée de Brouwer, 1973. {{DEFAULTSORT:Leroy, Jules 1903 births 1979 deaths 20th-century French Roman Catholic priests French art historians 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers