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 some Christian traditions, ie Anglo-Catholic, Eastern Orthodox.
While The Book of Tobit is accepted as scriptural by the Roman Catholic Church, only reverence of the archangels mentioned in the recognised Catholic canon of scriptures, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, remain licit. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Church, Uriel is commemorated together with the other archangels and angels with a feast day of the "Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers." In apocryphal, kabbalistic and occult works, Uriel has been confused with Urial. For Anglo-Catholics within the Anglican Communion, Uriel is an Archangel and also the Patron Saint of the Sacrament of Confirmation.
The Anglo-Catholic intercessional prayer to Saint Uriel the Archangel is as follows:
Oh holy Saint Uriel, intercede for us that our hearts may burn with the fire of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Assist us in co-operating with the graces of our confirmation that the gifts of the
Holy Spirit may bear much fruit in our souls.
Obtain for us the grace to use the sword of truth to pare away all that is not in conformity to the most adorable
Will of God in our lives, that we may fully participate in the army of the Church.
Amen
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