- The education system is officially transferred to the Lutheran Church from the former Catholic church.
- The creation of the Swedish Church Ordinance 1571, the first complete order of the Protestant Swedish church. The church ordinance also includes a chapter about schooling, in which all children in the cities, regardless of sex, are to be given elementary schooling.[1]
- The ban from 1560 is retracted and the church are permitted to baptize, marry and bury the Romani.[2]
- The church ordinance declare that a son or son-in-law of a priest should be chosen first to succeed him as parish vicar.[3]