Uriel guides Enoch through the heavens in 1 Enoch, answers Ezra's theodicy questions in 2 Esdras as the archangel, and warns Noah of the flood in Enoch 10. At the Council of Rome in 745, Pope Zachary, alarmed by angel worship, struck apocryphal angel names from licit veneration, leaving only Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. A synod at Aix-la-Chapelle confirmed it in 789. Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism never dropped him.
The erased archangel kept resurfacing: invoked by 11th-century Bogomils, conjured in a 15th-century exorcism manual alongside the three licit names, cast by Vondel in 1654 and Milton in 1667 as the sharpest-sighted spirit in heaven. In the 16th century he allegedly appeared to the Sicilian friar Antonio Lo Duca and commissioned a church that Michelangelo would design, Santa Maria degli Angeli, built on papal orders, which is a strange afterlife for a name Rome had banned eight centuries earlier.
The claim: Uriel's Enochic role, archangel set over the world and Tartarus, guardian of the fallen watchers' prison, is the fossil of an older strata where the fire-god's angel held real cosmological office, and 745 was less about heresy than about retiring a cosmology. Verdict: the Enochic portfolio is on the page, and the demotion pattern, powerful figure reduced to footnote when cosmologies change, is real. But a banned name surviving in exorcisms suggests the practitioners, at least, never believed the demotion took.
If a church can strike an archangel, what was the angel before the paperwork?