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9 Types of Christian Angels
For almost 2,000 years a belief in angels was a crucial part of Christianity. In the fifth century, a Christian mystic named Dionysius the Areopagite claimed he learned the hierarchy of angelic beings through visions and meditation. This author outlined nine “choirs†of angels, with three sets grouped together as “spheres.â€
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