Jules Marie Lebreton (20 March 1873 in Tours – 6 July 1956 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a Jesuit and professor of the History of Christian Origins at the Institut catholique de Paris.
He received the degree of Docteur des lettres in 1901, and was ordained in 1903.
Two years later, he was appointed chair of the History of Christian Origins in the same faculty, a post that he held until his retirement in 1943.
His magisterial Histoire du dogme de la Trinité, Vol.
Although other preoccupations prevented the continuance of the work as originally projected,[2] Henri de Lubac judged it "one of the great theological works of our time".