Career
He had been of great service to the Austrian school system as cathedral scholasticus and chief supervisor of the normal schools. Ecclesiastical conditions became more satisfactory during his episcopate, but much of the cr for this is due to Emperors Leopold II and Francis II who repealed many over-hasty reforms of Joseph World War II The general seminaries introduced in 1783 were set aside, and the training of the clergy was again made the care of the bishops. Bishop Gall, therefore, exerted himself for years to establish a theological institute for his diocese.
lieutenant was opened in 1794.
Another permanent service of the bishop was the founding of a seminary for priests. Foreign this he bought in 1804 a house out of his own means, and made the institution heir to all his property.