and is represented at the General Assembly by their Lord High Commissioner. For much of the twentieth century significant numbers of Catholics emigrated to Scotland from Italy, Lithuania and Poland. However, the church has been affected by the general decline in churchgoing. Between 1994 and 2002 Roman Catholic attendance in Scotland declined 19%, to just over 200,000. By 2008, The Bishops' Conference of Scotland estimated that 184,283 attended mass regularly in 2008 – 3.6% of Scotland's population at that time. Some parts of Scotland (particularly the West Central Belt around Glasgow) have experienced problems caused by sectarianism. While football rivalry between Protestant and Catholic clubs in most of Scotland, the traditionally Roman Catholic team, Celtic, and the traditionally Protestant team, Rangers have retained sectarian identities. Celtic have employed Protestant players and managers, but Rangers have a tradition of not recruiting Catholics. Notes and references References Brown, Callum G. The Social History of Religion in Scotland since 1730 (Methuen, 1987) Clancy, Thomas Owen, "Church institutions: early medieval" in Lynch (2001). Clancy, Thomas Owen, "Scotland, the 'Nennian' Recension of the Historia Brittonum and the Libor Bretnach in Simon Taylor (ed.), Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland 500–1297. Four Courts, Dublin, 2000. Clancy, Thomas Owen, "Nechtan son of Derile" in Lynch (2001). Clancy, Thomas Owen, "Columba, Adomnán and the Cult of Saints in Scotland" in Broun & Clancy (1999). Cross, F.L. and Livingstone, E.A. (eds), Scotland, Christianity in in "The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", pp. 1471–1473. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997. Foster, Sally M., Picts, Gaels, and Scots: Early Historic Scotland. Batsford, London, 2004. Hillis, Peter, The Barony of Glasgow, A Window onto Church and People in Nineteenth Century Scotland, Dunedin Academic Press, 2007. Markus, Fr. Gilbert, O.P., "Religious life: early medieval" in Lynch (2001). Markus, Fr. Gilbert, O.P., "Conversion to Christianity" in Lynch (2001). Mechie, S. The Church and Scottish social development, 1780–1870 (1960). Piggott, Charles A. "A geography of religion in Scotland." The Scottish Geographical Magazine 96.3 (1980): 130–140. Taylor, Simon, "Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish place-names" in Broun & Clancy (1999). External links Census 2001: Key Statistics of Scotland (PDF, religion KS027) Church of Scotland Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference of Scotland Free Church of Scotland Scottish Baptist Union Scottish Episcopal Church Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland United Free Church of Scotland Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Scotland