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The ecclesiastical order of 1575 emerged in connection with the Bohemian confession and was to become a normative document for reform of the non-Catholic ecclesiastical administration, which was proposed by the estate opposition during a session of the Bohemian provincial diet. However, Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and the King of Bohemia, rejected the reform and the order became valid in a reviewed form in 1609, after issuance of the Rudolphine Letter of Majesty on religious freedom, when it was issued for the Utraquist lower consistory.