Abbé Marius Chaîne (10 August 1873 – 19 January 1960) was a French scholar of Ethiopic and Coptic philology.

He studied at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, where he was a student of Joseph Halévy, and at the École du Louvre in Paris, where he was a student of Eugène Revillout.

[1] In 1897 he was ordained and joined the Society of Jesus, but abandoned it after World War I.

[citation needed] Chaîne was a professor of Oriental languages at Saint Joseph University, Beirut; the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; and the Pontifical Biblical Institute.

[3] He died at Sainte-Marie du Désert Abbey, in Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie, Haute-Garonne.