The Seven Angels before the throne

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What are all their names? I find in some sources that we know more names than just Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael. Is this true? Or is this just some sort of heretical New Age stuff?
 
nothing to do with new age, there are other names for archangels drawn from Jewish apocryphal literature, Uriel, traditionally guardian of the gates of the garden of Eden, is one of them.
 
Here’s the verse, emphasis mine:
I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who enter and serve before the glory of the Lord. (Tobit 14:15, NAB)
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But their actual names? As far as I understand fro Fr. Serpa’s answers on CAL, we don’t know the other angel’s names as a certainty, bur we are only sure of Raphael, Gabriel, and Michael.
 
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What are all their names? I find in some sources that we know more names than just Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael. Is this true? Or is this just some sort of heretical New Age stuff?
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With lots of qualifiers, from the Catholic Encylopedia . . .

Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel, and Barachiel.
 
I have a prayer book that has prayers to each archangel assigned to a particular day. St. Michael is on Sunday, and so on.
 
Do we not have any patronage assigned to the others since we don’t particularly know their duties, as opposed to G,R and M who have interacted with humanity and so we know their main service to God?? This is all very interesting to me.
 
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Do we not have any patronage assigned to the others since we don’t particularly know their duties, as opposed to G,R and M who have interacted with humanity and so we know their main service to God?? This is all very interesting to me.
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I don’t have it on hand, but I want to recommend A Dictionary of Angels by Gustav Davidson. It has more than you’d ever think you wanted to know! I referenced it in this thread regarding the Angelic Choirs, and I recall that there are several charts and tables for each of the seven Archangels.
 
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I don’t have it on hand, but I want to recommend A Dictionary of Angels by Gustav Davidson. It has more than you’d ever think you wanted to know! I referenced it in this thread regarding the Angelic Choirs, and I recall that there are several charts and tables for each of the seven Archangels.
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Please be careful with this book. It references many apocryphal books.
 
I mentioned it because the names of the five archangels not mentioned in scripture were already listed. Those names could only have come from such a source.
 
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