The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2584 page)

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Urabe family
(Shinto family of diviners):
Urabe Shint
(Shinto school):
Urabon
(rituals for the dead):
Urbi et Orbi
(Lat., ‘to the city and to the world’). The blessing given by the
pope
on solemn occasions, initially from any one of the basilicas in Rome, but now from St Peter's. The custom was revived in 1922 after an interval of fifty years, becoming increasingly an occasion of adulation of the pope.
Uriel
.
An
angel
mentioned in the Jewish book of
1
Enoch
. Uriel is one of the four angels placed around God's throne (
Num.R.
2. 10).
Urim and Thummim
.

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