Congregations

The Catholic Religious Archives at Boston College holds records of the men and women religious congregations listed below. They are arranged first alphabetically, then by spiritual traditional, and finally by gender.

Please click on the name of a congregation for information and resources related to each.

All collections are currently closed.  Processed collections will be open for research when the Catholic Religious Archives opens in the summer of 2026.


Please use letters A-Z or scroll to navigate the complete list below. You may also use the buttons to see congregations arranged by Spiritual Tradition or Gender.

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Augustinians of the Assumption – North American Province

Benedictine Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA of Pontifical Jurisdiction

Discalced Carmelite Communities Associated

  • Saranac Lake Carmel (NY)
  • Barre Carmelites (VT)
  • Bronx Carmel/Carmel of the Incarnation (NY)
  • Beacon Carmel (NY)
  • Carmel Communion

Discalced Carmelite Nuns of the Monastery of St. Therese (Danvers, Massachusetts)

Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery (Hunts Point, the Bronx)

Dominican Sisters of Hope (New York)

  • Newburgh, NY
  • Ossining, NY
  • Fall River, MA

Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa Mound (Wisconsin)

  • Dominican Sisters of Kettle Falls, Washington

Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa

Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart (Frankfort, IL)

Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart of Philadelphia

Holy Name Federation of Poor Clares

  • Poor Clares of Montana

Little Company of Mary Sisters, USA (Illinois)

Little Sisters of the Assumption

Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception – USA Province

Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception – Roman Generalate

The Passionists – Saint Paul of the Cross Province

Poor Sisters of Jesus Crucified and the Sorrowful Mother

Presentation Sisters of Staten Island (Staten Island, NY)

Religious of Christian Education

Sisters of Charity of New York

Sisters of Providence (Holyoke, MA)

Sisters of St. Chretienne – US Region

Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities

  • Millvale, PA
  • Sisters of Saint Francis Third Regular Order of Buffalo (Williamsville Franciscans)
  • Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Divine Child (Buffalo, NY)
  • Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Divine Child (Buffalo, NY)
  • Sisters of St. Francis (Syracuse, New York)
  • Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Conception (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)

Sisters of Saint Joseph (Watertown, NY)

Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (New Windsor, NY)

Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union – Central Province

  • Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union – Northeast Province

Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union – Eastern Province