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2. Religious:
- the order of Jesuits and Jesuit educational
establishments were liquidated in Halychyna
(1773);
- a Greek Catholic seminary of Saint Vardar
was opened in Vienna (1774), later in Lviv
and Uzhhorod;
- it was forbidden to force Greek Catholics to
perform Catholic ceremony and use the term
“Uniat” as an insulting one;
- the rights of Catholic, Greek Catholic and
Protestant churches became equal (1781);
- the church was subject to the state,
clergymen obtained the status of government
officials;
- the restriction for non-Catholics to occupy
public positions and buy lands was abolished.
3. Educational:
- In 1784 Lviv University restored its
activities. Teaching was in Latin and Polish;
- the Russian Institute was opened as a part of
Lviv University, where people of Halychyna
could learn in Ukrainian at theology and
philosophy departments;
- the law of general education was passed
(1777), it introduced the system of primary
and secondary schools of 5 types. It is
allowed to teach in Ukrainian in primary
schools (since 1818).
1808 Galician Metropolitanate of Greek Catholic
church was founded. It included three
episcopacies; Lviv, Peremyshl, Holmsk.
1810-1825 The movement of opryshkys (rebels) in

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