User blog comment:Betsie/The gods: Hierarchy?/@comment-12903645-20130729200333

I think that the Seven Ghosts are inferior to Mikhail. Mikahil is a true god or angel whereas the seven ghosts are fragments made from Verloren's soul. They're only 'bits of a god' if you get what I mean.

Raphael and Mikhail are probably of the same status; they were both sent to Earth to do similar jobs: one to guard Verloren's soul and one to guard Verloren's body and so it would be unlikely for them to have dissimilar statuses (is that a word?).

I agree with your final point about the Chief of Heaven wholeheartedly. :)