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With the arrival of the covid-19 pandemic, questions were formulated about the religious meaning behind this phenomenon in an attempt to indicate its causes and draw pastoral and educational conclusions. Therefore, this paper attempts to solve the research problem regarding the impact of the pandemic on the declarations of believers in Poland about their religious faith. For this purpose, in June 2021, research was conducted on a sample of adult Poles, statistically representative in terms of four key socio-demographic variables: age, gender, class and place of residence in their voivodeship. The data analysis conducted for this paper was limited to a sample of 2,297 respondents who declared themselves believers and practice regularly or irregularly, or believers who do not practice their faith. The obtained results indicate that social isolation accompanying the pandemic and restrictions on organized religious worship did not significantly either weaken or strengthen the respondents’ self-declarations about their faith. Nevertheless, there was a group declaring that their faith was strengthened, and only a small part of the respondents stated that their faith had weakened. The research also confirmed the diversity of respondents in terms of religious beliefs and the related declared changes concerning their faith depending on gender, age, place of residence and education. In conclusion, the authors point to the need to continue observing and analysing the changes that have taken place in Polish society, as well as to recognize the long-term consequences of social isolation during the pandemic with its possible impact on the functioning of …