Hirtenbriefe#
Pastoral Letters, form of episcopal instruction modelled on the Epistles and the postapostolic letters to the parishes, also take the form of the statement of opinion of a superior (a bishop or the Bishops, Conference of (Austrian)) on topical issues.
Publications#
Hirtenbriefe aus Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, ed. by the Institut fuer kirchliche Zetigeschichte Salzburg, 1965ff.