Archangel Samuel

Oversimplified

• A name found in certain Second-Temple and apocryphal traditions among the ranks of angels; not among the archangels named in canonical Scripture.
• Orthodox tradition names chiefly Michael and Gabriel (and Raphael, Uriel, etc. from wider tradition); "Samuel/Sariel" appears in extrabiblical angelology.

Summary

The figure of an "Archangel Samuel" (sometimes Sariel or Suriel) belongs to Second-Temple angelological literature such as 1 Enoch rather than to the canonical Scriptures, which name only Michael and Gabriel as archangels (with Raphael in Tobit).[^1] Orthodox iconography and hymnography center on the holy archangels led by Michael. Extra-canonical names are approached with caution and are not objects of formal veneration in the way the Scriptural angels are.

Discernment

Orthodoxy honors the angelic hosts but resists speculative angel-naming and any hint of angel-cult. Where such names arise, they are read as data about ancient Jewish imagination, not as doctrine. See Angels, Archangel Michael, The Divine Council, The Watchers.

[^1]: 1 Enoch and Second-Temple angelology (background); the canonical Scriptures name only Michael and Gabriel (with Raphael in Tobit).