Robert Stuart Skirving is the eighth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina.
As a part of his ministry in the wider Episcopal Church, Bishop Skirving also serves as the Chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South.
He studied at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1982.
He then earned a Master of Divinity from Huron University College in London, Ontario in 1986.
He was ordained deacon on May 1, 1986, in St Paul's Cathedral, London, Ontario, and then a priest on December 17, 1986, in St James' Westminster Church in London, Ontario by Derwyn Dixon Jones, the Bishop of Huron.