Cœlestes Spiritus
Uriel
Fire of God / God is my light
- Role
- Angel of wisdom and repentance (tradition)
- Feast
- Not on the universal Roman calendar
- Status in the Church
- Named in 2 Esdras (Catholic appendix) · not one of the three liturgical archangels
In Scripture
Uriel appears in 2 Esdras (4 Esdras in the Vulgate appendix), interpreting visions and teaching about judgment. Some Eastern and medieval Western traditions honor him; the Roman Rite focuses on Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
2 Esdras 4:1, 5:20 (deuterocanonical appendix)
Today
Remembered in some local devotions and Eastern Christianity. Not invoked in the standard Roman liturgical books.