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Roger Skerning

Roger Skerning

13th-century Bishop of Norwich

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

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Life

Skerning was a monk of Norwich Cathedral before he was elected Prior of Norwich in 1257.[1]

Skerning was elected to the see of Norwich on 23 January 1266 and was consecrated on 4 April 1266.[2]

In 1276, William Freney, titular archbishop of Edessa, was acting as Skerning's suffragan in Norwich.[3]

Skerning died on 22 January 1278.[4]

Citations

  1. [1]
    British History Online Priors of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
  2. [2]
    British History Online Bishops of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
  3. [3]
    Jackson, "Freney, William".
  4. [4]
    Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 261

References

  • British History Online Bishops of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
  • British History Online Priors of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Jackson, Peter (2005). "Freney, William (fl. 1263–1286)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online [2014] ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/92436. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
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