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Raphael (archangel) Raphael ( UK: / ˈræfeɪəl / RAF-ay-əl, US: / ˈræfiəl, ˈreɪf -/ RA (Y)F-ee-əl; "God has healed") [a] is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BCE.
"Archangel" is derived from Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhángelos), the Greek prefix " arch -" meaning "chief". A common misconception is that this is the highest rank of angel in Christianity, likely stemming from John Milton 's Paradise Lost and confusion over the "arch-" prefix. [4]
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Catholic tradition calls Michael, Gabriel and Raphael archangels. The word archangel comes from the Greek words arche (prince) and angelos (messenger). Michael means " Who is like God? " (a rhetorical question), Gabriel means " Power of God " or " Strong One of God " and Raphael means " God has healed ". [2]
The term archangel itself is not found in the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament, and in the Greek New Testament the term archangel only occurs in 1 Thessalonians 4 ( 1 Thessalonians 4:16) and the Epistle of Jude ( Jude 1:9 ), where it is used of Michael, who in Daniel 10 ( Daniel 10:12) is called 'one of the chief princes,' and 'the great prince '. In the Septuagint, this is rendered ...
Arhangela Mihaila) is a Serbian Orthodox cathedral church in the centre of Belgrade, Serbia, situated in the old part of the city, at the intersection of Kralja Petra and Kneza Sime Markovića streets. It was built between 1837 and 1840, on the location of an older church also dedicated to Archangel Michael.
CATHEDRAL OF THE ARCHANGEL. The Cathedral of the Archangel Mikhail, in the Moscow Kremlin, served as the mausoleum of the Muscovite grand princes and tsars until the end of the seventeenth century. The present building (built 1505 – 1509) was commissioned by Tsar Ivan III (reigned 1462 – 1505) to replace a fourteenth-century church.
Uriel ( Hebrew: אוּרִיאֵל, Greek: Ουριήλ, Coptic: ⲟⲩⲣⲓⲏⲗ, [4] meaning “God is my light” or “fire of God”) is an archangel in Jewish and Christian traditions. The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Anglicans call him “Saint Uriel the Archangel” or simply “Saint Uriel”.
