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The New Testament makes over a hundred references to angels, but uses the word "archangel" only twice. | The New Testament makes over a hundred references to angels, but uses the word "archangel" only twice. | ||
==Canon archangels== | |||
The Catholic Church excluded most [[angel]]s commonly considered archangels from their list of named [[angel]]s in the 2001 ''Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy''. "The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged." This document officially recognizes only three named angels: | |||
* [[Archangel Gabriel]] | |||
* [[Archangel Michael]] | |||
* [[Archangel Raphael]] | |||
==List of ruling archangels== | ==List of ruling archangels== | ||
* [[Camael]] | * [[Camael]] | ||
* [[Jophiel]] | * [[Jophiel]] | ||
* [[Metatron]] | * [[Metatron]] | ||
* [[Archangel Raziel]] | * [[Archangel Raziel]] | ||
* [[Samael]] | * [[Samael]] | ||
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* [[Archangel Zadkiel]] | * [[Archangel Zadkiel]] | ||
* [[Archangel Zaphkiel]] | * [[Archangel Zaphkiel]] | ||
* [[Archangel Anael]] | |||
* [[Archangel Haniel]] | |||
==Kabbalistic angels in this choir== | ==Kabbalistic angels in this choir== | ||