Ezekiel

Ezekiel the Prophet
Ezekiel, as depicted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Prophet, Priest
Born	c. 622 BCE Jerusalem
Died	c. 570 BCE Babylon
Venerated in	Judaism Christianity (Protestantism, Roman Catholic Church, Armenian Apostolic Church, Eastern Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church) Islam Bahai Faith
Major shrine	Ezekiel's Tomb, Al Kifl, Iraq
Feast	August 28 - Armenian Apostolic Church July 23 - Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism July 21 - Lutheranism

Ezekiel (/ᵻˈziːki.əl/; Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל‎, Y'ḥez'qel, Hebrew pronunciation: [jəħezˈqel]) is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.

In Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith, Ezekiel is acknowledged as a Hebrew prophet. In Judaism and Christianity, he is also viewed as the 6th-century BCE author of the Book of Ezekiel that reveals prophecies regarding the destruction of Jerusalem, the restoration to the land of Israel, and what some call the Millennial Temple visions, or the Third Temple.

The author of the Book of Ezekiel presents himself as Ezekiel, the son of Buzzi, born into a priestly (Kohen) lineage. Apart from identifying himself, the author gives a date for the first divine encounter which he presents: "in the thirtieth year". If this is a reference to Ezekiel's age at the time, he was born around 622 BCE, about the time of Josiah's reforms. His "thirtieth year" is given as 5 years after the exile of Judah's king Jehoiachin by the Babylonians. Josephus claims that at the request of Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylonian armies exiled three thousand Jews from Judah, after deposing King Jehoiachin in 598 BCE.