In Poland work today one hundred thirty-eight Churches and religious groups officially registered.
The most numerous are the faithful of the Catholic Church (about 95% of citizens believers). Among the four rites: the Byzantine-Ukrainian, Byzantine-Slavic, Armenian and Latin, the latter is the most numerous (in 1998 belonged to him more than 35 million members, organized in 9990 and parishes served by 28,000 clergy).
Because the bull Totus Tuus Poloniae Populus Pope John Paul II, in 1992 Poland was divided into 40 dioceses and 13 metropolises Latin and Byzantine-Ukrainian. The ecclesiastical power belongs to the bishops in dioceses that form the episcopate. The current president of the Polish Episcopal Conference is Archbishop Józef Michalik. Across the country, and also abroad, develop their actions several organizations and pastoral institutions (eg, the Polish Catholic Mission, with a particularly strong presence in the Third World) and catechetical (engaged, among other things, the teaching of the Catholic religion in schools), as well as dozens of male and female orders (Franciscans, Jesuits, Dominicans, Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel, Salesians, Redemptorists, Sisters of St. Elizabeth, Ursuline, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul .)
Beyond the Catholic Church in Poland are present few Christian churches of considerable size, and dozens of churches and religious groups with the lowest number of faithful.
The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church is the second religious group in Poland by number of adherents. It has about 550,000 faithful and 320 clergy. Most followers of this church belongs to the minority Belarusian, who lives in eastern voivodeships.
The third Christian confession of Poland is Protestantism, which is divided, in turn, in various denominations. The Evangelical Lutheran Church (Augsburg) has more than 85,000 faithful, the Pentecostal Church, about 17 thousand, and the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 10 000. Other Protestant churches have 5-6 thousand members each.
Poland are also present so-called Old Catholic Churches (no connection to the Roman Catholic Church): the Old Catholic Church of Mariavites, the Polish Catholic Church and the Catholic Church of Mariavites. The faithful of the three Churches are a 88 000.
The Jehovah's Witnesses have about 130,000 followers.
Additionally, in Poland are present some other religious groups, eg the Muslim Religious Community (islam), the Jewish Community (Judaism), the Karaite religious community (it is a religion which arose from the merger of Judaism with Islam; profess it members of an ethnic minority of Turkish origin), and a group of fairly large organizations which are based in Eastern religions, such as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or the Buddhist Society.
                                                                  
A peculiar feature of Polish religiosity is affection for traditional Christian customs and practices, such as pilgrimages to holy places, liturgical processions (eg, on the feast of Corpus Christi), spiritual exercises in Advent and Lent, patronal feasts in honor of the patron parishes. The cult of the Virgin Mary is especially important. The greatest Marian shrines in Poland are the Black Madonna of Częstochowa and the Virgin of Sorrows Licheń, but across the country there are very many local shrines, smaller, where they worship the Mother of Jesus.

Church of the thirteenth century. Located in the main square (Rynek).