He most likely died of old age.
No, he is not.
There are several saints named Zachariah in Christian history, including St. Zachariah the Prophet in the Old Testament and St. Zachariah the father of St. John the Baptist in the New Testament. St. Zachariah is venerated for his role in preparing the way for the coming of Jesus.
Zechariah was what is known as a "minor prophet," and his book is second from last in the Old Testament (right before Malachi. In his book, Zechariah documented the visions and prophetic messages that he received from God, pertaining to the future of Israel.
Johns father was Zachariah, yes he was a priest.
Yes, Luke 1 details the birth of John the Baptist, and Zachariah is indeed his father.
Zachary, the father of John the Baptist, is not shown as a patron saint.
It was the angel Gabriel who visted John's future father, Zachariah
Elizabeth (Elisabeth) was not a prophetess. She did belong to a rather noteworthy family. She was a descendant from Aaron, wife of Zachariah the priest, mother of John the Baptist. She was a cousin of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
He is the father of St. John the Baptist & distant relative of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Barachiah (or Barachias), who was the father of Zechariah (or Zecharias), who was John the Baptist's father. Zechariah (Zecharias) wrote the Book of Zechariah in the Old Testament (Zechariah 1:1) and was martyred as stated by Jesus (Matthew 23:35). John the Baptist's great grandfather was the prophet Iddo.
No, John the Baptist was a prophet and the precursor of Our Lord.
A:Luke chapter 1 says that a priest named Zechariah was the father of John the Baptist, and that he was related by marriage to Mary, mother of Jesus. It does not say who Zechariah's father was. Many scholars have noticed similarities, not only of name, to Zachariah in the Old Testament, but the author of the Book of Zachariah lived centuries earlier.Uta Ranke-Heinemann (Putting Away Childish Things) believes that Luke's story of John the Baptist's infancy is not literally true, and that Zechariah and Elizabeth were fictional characters created by Luke's author.
No he was not consider a prophet because the last prophet is Saint John the Baptist.