Jean-Marie Mérigoux

Jean-Marie Mérigoux (27 January 1938 – 7 November 2020) was a French Roman Catholic priest and university professor.^[1]

Jean-Marie Mérigoux
Born	27 January 1938 Besançon, France
Died	7 November 2020(2020-11-07) (aged 82) Marseille, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Roman Catholic priest

Biography

Born in 1938 in Besançon, where his father was a professor of the sciences. After studying in Marseille, he attended the Catholic University of Toulouse. He was ordained a priest on 4 July 1965 in Rangueil and celebrated his first mass one week later in Foucherans.

Jean-Marie Mérgioux learned Arabic in Algiers and at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.^[2] He was then assigned to Iraq, where he stayed from 1969 to 1983. There, he trained young priests of the East Syriac Rite at the Saint-Jean-de-Mossoul seminary.^[3] He then joined the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, where he stayed for 22 years.

Jean-Marie Mérigoux died in Marseille on 7 November 2020 at the age of 82.^[4]

Publications

• Père Jean Maurice Fiey, op (1914-1995) (1997)
• Va à Ninive ! : un dialogue avec l’Irak (2000)
• Vers d’autres « Ninive » : Le Caire, Istanbul, Marseille : lettres, 1985-2010 (2010)
• Entretiens sur l’Orient chrétien : « Les deux poumons de l'Église » (2015)

Collaborative works

• Les Dominicains et les mondes musulmans : le P. Libercier (1841-1928), dominicain enseignant et curé de Moscou (2002)
• Jonas ou La volonté de Dieu (2008)
• Le Kurdistan et ses chrétiens (2010)