The following article aims to present the work of women religious communities. In the Diocese of Katowice there were the Borromean Sisters, the Elizabethan Sisters, the Franciscan Sisters, the Daughters of the Cross, the Marian Sisters, the Servite Sisters, the Ursulines, the Daughters of Charity, the Elizabethan Sisters, the Felician Sisters and the School Sisters of Notre Dame. These religious communities were primarily involved in charitable activities, including nursing the sick in hospitals and private homes, caring for infants, pre-school children, orphans, the terminally ill and the elderly. The work of the sisters also included primary schools, teachers' seminaries, high schools and cooking and sewing classes. They also took an active part in parish work, assisting priests in pastoral care.