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The Polish Province has undergone various transformations throughout its history: its very beginnings are linked to unsuccessful attempts to settle in the homeland, made by the Polish founding circle (1842 – Semenenko; 1848 – Kajsiewicz; 1852 – Hube) at a time when Poland was absent from the maps of Europe. Even taking up chaplaincy work (with the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception [1869] or at noble courts [1880]) did not guarantee stability or growth.
Only the purchase of a house from the Franciscan Sisters in Lviv, on Piekarska Street (1880) – where a boarding school for Greek-Catholic youth was opened and pastoral work began in the small local church – created the prospect of a stable mission. As a result, the Superior General of the Congregation appointed Fr. Walerian Kalinka as Provincial of Galicia, and he is considered the founder of the Polish Province. Soon afterward, a new foundation in Kraków on Łobzowska Street (1884) came under his jurisdiction. It became the site of the novitiate and boarding house, and from 1897 also the headquarters of the Provincial of the Kraków Province (Bakanowski). This arrangement continued until the abolition of the provincial division in 1902.
After 30 years, the General Chapter (1932) established the General Delegation for a now independent Poland (since 1918), which in 1948 was renamed the Province. Its first superior was Fr. Czesław Falkiewicz.
When Poland returned to the map of Europe (1918), the first parish we assumed was St. Anthony Parish in Radziwiłłów Mazowiecki (1920). Over time, new parishes were added in Poznań and Warsaw, and just before the outbreak of World War II, in Kraków–Wola Duchacka. After the war (1945), new opportunities for pastoral work emerged in Western Pomerania and Pomerelia 
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Today, 153 religious make up the Polish Province, serving in various apostolates both in Poland and abroad: in Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine, Italy, and Tanzania. The majority of priests work in 59 parishes and pastoral centers, 3 sanctuaries, and 8 chaplaincies. Some of our confreres are involved in evangelization movements, retreat and vocation ministry, formation and education at various levels, administration, and media.
In any case, in every area of our mission – according to our strength and talents – we wish, with God's grace, to rise each day from sin and misery ourselves, and to work with all our strength for the resurrection of society. The patroness of the Polish Province is Our Lady of Sorrows of Sulisławice.
