{{Infobox Christian leader | name = Roger Skerning | title = Bishop of Norwich | elected = 23 January 1266 | ended = 22 January 1278 | predecessor = Simon Walton | successor = William Middleton | consecration = 4 April 1266 | other_post = Prior of Norwich | death_date = 22 January 1278 | religion = Roman Catholic }}

'''Roger Skerning''' (or '''Roger de Skerning'''; died 22 January 1278) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich.

==Life== Skerning was a monk of Norwich Cathedral before he was elected Prior of Norwich in 1257.<ref name=BHOPriorNorwich>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33867 British History Online Priors of Norwich] accessed on 29 October 2007</ref>

Skerning was elected to the see of Norwich on 23 January 1266 and was consecrated on 4 April 1266.<ref name=BHONorwich>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33866 British History Online Bishops of Norwich] accessed on 29 October 2007</ref>

In 1276, William Freney, titular archbishop of Edessa, was acting as Skerning's suffragan in Norwich.<ref>Jackson, "Freney, William".</ref>

Skerning died on 22 January 1278.<ref name=Handbook261>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 261</ref>

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==References== * [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33866 British History Online Bishops of Norwich] accessed on 29 October 2007 * [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33867 British History Online Priors of Norwich] accessed on 29 October 2007 * {{cite book |last1=Fryde |first1=E. B. |last2=Greenway |first2=D. E. |last3=Porter |first3=S. |last4=Roy |first4=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} *{{cite encyclopedia |authorlink=Peter Jackson (historian) |first=Peter |last=Jackson |title=Freney, William (fl. 1263–1286) |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2005 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/92436 |edition=Online [2014] |access-date=6 December 2015 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/92436|url-access=subscription }}

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