Zechariah, father of John the Baptist

Zechariah
Zechariah
Priest, Prophet, Guardian of Mary,; Devotee, Martyr;
Venerated in	Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church; Oriental Orthodox Church; Anglicanism; Lutheranism; Islam;
Canonized	Pre-Congregation
Feast	September 5 – Eastern Orthodox; September 5 – Lutheran; September 23 – Roman Catholic

Zechariah
Zechariah
	Saint Zechariah by Jusepe de Ribera, 1634
Personal life
Born	1st century BC
Died	1st century BC (or early 1st century AD); Jerusalem (Matthew 23:35), the Levant
Spouse	Elizabeth
Children	John the Baptist
Religious life
Religion	Abrahamic religions
Venerated in
Zechariah
Priest, Prophet, Guardian of Mary,; Devotee, Martyr;
Venerated in	Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church; Oriental Orthodox Church; Anglicanism; Lutheranism; Islam;
Canonized	Pre-Congregation
Feast	September 5 – Eastern Orthodox; September 5 – Lutheran; September 23 – Roman Catholic

Zechariah was a Jewish priest mentioned in the New Testament and the Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:36). In the Quran, his story mentioned in initial verse of surah Maryam (chapter Mary).