[2] From 1967 to 1975 he was a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College and then Salisbury and Wells Theological College, after which he became Vicar and subsequently Team Rector of St Thomas' Church, Wednesfield[3]—a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate.

In 1978 he was seconded for six months to the Anglican Church of Melanesia to teach at the Bishop Patteson Theological College at Kohimarama in the Solomon Islands.

During his latter years on the Board he was instrumental in encouraging the Church of England to take the Distinctive Diaconate seriously, introducing the report For Such A Time as This to the General Synod in 2001.

Rogerson has been a supporter of the ordination of women to the priesthood since his days as a student at Leeds University.

Alongside John Oliver, then Bishop of Hereford, he was a consultant to The Movement for the Ordination of Women.