Archangel Uriel

Uriel
Mosaic of St. Uriel by James Powell and Sons, at St John’s Church, Boreham, Wiltshire.
Archangel
Venerated in	Rabbinic Judaism, Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Byzantine Catholicism, Oriental Orthodoxy
Feast	September 29 (Western), November 8 (Eastern)
Attributes	Flaming sword, Fire in palm
Patronage	Sacrament of Confirmation, poetry

Uriel (אוּרִיאֵל "El/God is my light", Auriel/Oriel (God is my light), Standard Hebrew Uriʾel, Tiberian Hebrew ʾÛrîʾēl) is one of the archangels of post-exilic rabbinic tradition, and also of certain Christian traditions.

In apocryphal, kabbalistic, and occult works, Uriel has been equated or confused with Urial,Nuriel, Uryan, Jeremiel, Vretil, Sariel, Suriel, Puruel, Phanuel, Jacob, Azrael, and Raphael.

The angels mentioned in the older books of the Hebrew Bible (aka the Tanakh) are without names. Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish of Tiberias (230–270) even asserted that all of the specific names for the angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon, and some modern commentators would tend to agree. Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-exilic Judaism, only two of them, the archangels Michael and Gabriel, are mentioned by name in the canonized Jewish scriptures, in the book of Daniel in particular, which is one of the youngest books in the Tanakh.

Raphael features prominently in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit (initially accepted by both the Jewish and Christian canons, but removed from the Jewish canon in late antiquity and rejected by the Protestant reformers in the 16th century). The Book of Tobit is accepted as scriptural by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Church.