English-Italian translations for pastoral

pastoraleLa cura pastorale di questi fedeli è ora ostacolata dalla recente espulsione di cinque sacerdoti cattolici. The pastoral care of these people is being frustrated by recent expulsions of five Catholic priests. E' quanto si legge nel messaggio pastorale dei vescovi. This can be read in the pastoral message issued by the bishops. Era stato inviato come Nunzio apostolico in Burundi e laggiù è stato ucciso mentre faceva ritorno da una visita pastorale a una delle sue diocesi. He went to Burundi as Apostolic Nuncio and it was there, while returning from a pastoral visit in one of his dioceses, that he was murdered.

Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock
Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic
A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese

We were living a pastoral life.
[...] these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, lines 16-18
pastoral duties; a pastoral letter

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