All 3 Uses of

archangel

in

Ulysses, by James Joyce

Where fallen archangels flung the stars of their brows.†
Chpt 10 *

archangels = angels of high rank

The priest prayed: —Blessed Michael, archangel, defend us in the hour of conflict.†
Chpt 5

He told her that time when she told him about that in confession, crimsoning up to the roots of her hair for fear he could see, not to be troubled because that was only the voice of nature and we were all subject to nature's laws, he said, in this life and that that was no sin because that came from the nature of woman instituted by God, he said, and that Our Blessed Lady herself said to the archangel Gabriel be it done unto me according to Thy Word.†
Chpt 13

Definitions:

(1) (archangel)
an angel of high rank
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, archangel can refer to an herb, a last name, or a city in Russia.