| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| T0116.001 | Forced Conversion to the Metropole's Religion |
| T0116.002 | Imposition of the Metropole's Holiday Calendar |
| T0116.003 | Ban on Worship in the Native Language |
As part of religious assimilation, aggressors may categorically prohibit the use of the indigenous people's language in religious rites, sacred texts, and spiritual education. Displacing the local language from the sacred sphere cements its status as second-rate, severs the spiritual bond between generations, and accelerates the linguistic absorption of the colonized society.
Following the establishment of control over the metropolitanate came the gradual unification of liturgical printing and pronunciation along Muscovite models, culminating in Peter I's direct decree of 1720: church books could be printed only after being checked against Muscovite ones, "so that there be no discord or distinct dialect in them"[1].
The displacement of the local population's language from the sacred sphere: metropolitan Samuil Myslavsky's order of 26 October 1784 demanded that students and future priests practice "the reading of church books of every kind, and above all the Bible, acquiring a good and pure pronunciation" - after the Moscow model instead of the Ukrainian church tradition, under the threat of expulsion from the clerical estate[2], and in 1786 metropolitan Myslavsky prescribed to the clergy the unification of pronunciation and orthography along the Russian model[3].