The vast estate, comprising the college, has the rare distinction of having existed in at least five separate national Jurisdictions in the last century and a half.

From 1918 the college was in independent Poland until 1939 when it ceased to exist as an institution, although not as an asset, due to foreign invasions, first by the Red Army till 1941, then by the German Wehrmacht until 1943, before being re-taken by the Soviet Union.

In August 2013, the historic college and outbuildings were sold in a Ukrainian government auction for ₴2,231,000 (then about $275,000) to a private investor "Chyrów-rent-inwest”.

It opened in Chyrów (now Khyriv, Ukraine), near Przemyśl then in the Austrian Partition of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, just as the Jesuit college in Tarnopol was closed down by the authorities in 1886.

It survived and flourished despite obstacles from the Austrian authorities, and was to continue the tradition of the former Jesuit Colleges in Polotsk (1580-1820) and Tarnopol until the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939).

[4][5] [6] In 1883 the Polish Jesuits purchased the country estate of Franciszek Topolnicki at Bąkowice near Chyrów, about 33 kilometres (21 mi) from Przemyśl.

There was generous space for socialising and boarders had good sleeping accommodation with an enormous dining hall and an assembly chamber.

The estate possessed a modern plumbing and waste water system, with an independent electricity generator, an infirmary, a mill with a bakery attached.

It was further expanded with the volumes the Jesuits managed to recover from many locations after the re-establishment of the Order in Europe, and by new purchases and donations.

Although the college curriculum was largely based on that followed in all Polish state high schools, there were at various stages, attempts to extend its scope.

For instance in 1890 there was an experiment to teach history in the German language, however the expected results were not attained and the initiative was abandoned.

Between 1909 and 1917 aside from core subjects taught in Polish, other language teaching was introduced consisting of Ukrainian, Russian, French and English.

[26] On the 100th anniversary of the college's foundation, a commemorative plaque was installed in the church of St. Barbara in Kraków, Poland on 14 September 1986.

It was sponsored by "Chyrowiak" Old Boys, both in Poland and abroad to recall the long traditions and legacy of the earlier Jesuit colleges of Polotsk and of Tarnopol of which Chyrow became an honourable successor.

The plaque also pays tribute to the founders of the college, its teachers, prefects and pupils and all those among them who paid the ultimate sacrifice during its existence, dying or being murdered in the ensuing historical conflicts, including the two world wars.