Pastoral letter

Pastoral letter - open letter addressed by a bishop to the clergy or laity of his diocese. Article “Pastoral letter” in English Wikipedia has 22.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Basque Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Pastoral letter”, its content was written by 22 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 125 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 180 times in English Wikipedia and cited 725 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #185169 in November 2005
• Global: #134885 in January 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #159129 in March 2010
• Global: #79839 in March 2010

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Basque (eu) Gutun pastoral		22.7945
2	English (en) Pastoral letter		22.7329
3	Norwegian (no) Hyrdebrev		22.1583
4	Italian (it) Lettera pastorale		19.0904
5	German (de) Hirtenbrief		16.6834
6	Swedish (sv) Herdabrev		12.7119
7	Danish (da) Hyrdebrev		11.8908
8	Czech (cs) Pastýřský list		3.1059
9	Spanish (es) Carta pastoral		2.0502
10	French (fr) Lettre pastorale		1.4284

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pastoral letter" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Hirtenbrief		102 621
2	English (en) Pastoral letter		85 048
3	Spanish (es) Carta pastoral		46 305
4	Danish (da) Hyrdebrev		20 090
5	French (fr) Lettre pastorale		16 940
6	Czech (cs) Pastýřský list		11 484
7	Swedish (sv) Herdabrev		7 590
8	Italian (it) Lettera pastorale		4 362
9	Norwegian (no) Hyrdebrev		910
10	Dutch (nl) Herderlijk schrijven		732

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pastoral letter" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pastoral letter		404
2	German (de) Hirtenbrief		278
3	Danish (da) Hyrdebrev		100
4	Spanish (es) Carta pastoral		79
5	Italian (it) Lettera pastorale		58
6	French (fr) Lettre pastorale		43
7	Czech (cs) Pastýřský list		33
8	Swedish (sv) Herdabrev		23
9	Norwegian (no) Hyrdebrev		10
10	Basque (eu) Gutun pastoral		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Pastoral letter" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hirtenbrief		42
2	English (en) Pastoral letter		22
3	Danish (da) Hyrdebrev		13
4	French (fr) Lettre pastorale		11
5	Swedish (sv) Herdabrev		11
6	Czech (cs) Pastýřský list		9
7	Spanish (es) Carta pastoral		7
8	Italian (it) Lettera pastorale		5
9	Norwegian (no) Hyrdebrev		3
10	Basque (eu) Gutun pastoral		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Pastoral letter" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Pastýřský list		0
2	Danish (da) Hyrdebrev		0
3	German (de) Hirtenbrief		0
4	English (en) Pastoral letter		0
5	Spanish (es) Carta pastoral		0
6	Basque (eu) Gutun pastoral		0
7	French (fr) Lettre pastorale		0
8	Italian (it) Lettera pastorale		0
9	Dutch (nl) Herderlijk schrijven		0
10	Norwegian (no) Hyrdebrev		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Pastoral letter" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Hirtenbrief		228
2	English (en) Pastoral letter		180
3	French (fr) Lettre pastorale		91
4	Italian (it) Lettera pastorale		57
5	Czech (cs) Pastýřský list		55
6	Spanish (es) Carta pastoral		45
7	Swedish (sv) Herdabrev		29
8	Norwegian (no) Hyrdebrev		17
9	Danish (da) Hyrdebrev		10
10	Dutch (nl) Herderlijk schrijven		7

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Pastýřský list
da	Danish Hyrdebrev
de	German Hirtenbrief
en	English Pastoral letter
es	Spanish Carta pastoral
eu	Basque Gutun pastoral
fr	French Lettre pastorale
it	Italian Lettera pastorale
nl	Dutch Herderlijk schrijven
no	Norwegian Hyrdebrev
sv	Swedish Herdabrev

Best Rank

English: #159129 03.2010

Global: #79839 03.2010

Best Rank

English: #185169 11.2005

Global: #134885 01.2006

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