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The Chief Angels of the Abrahamic Traditions
The archangels are the highest-named angels of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel and others), who carry out the most significant of the divine errands: announcing, guarding, healing, bearing revelation. The lists differ between the three religions and between texts within each, and only a few names are common to all.
In the Christian celestial hierarchy the archangels are, strictly, the second-lowest of the nine ranks, but in popular and esoteric usage the word names the great princely angels regardless of rank, and it is in that broader sense that the category is used here.
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