Kelly Betteridge

Kelly Anne Betteridge (born 1969) is the Bishop-designate of Basingstoke (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Winchester). Currently, she is the Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro and has held that position since May 2021.^[1][2]

Biography

Betteridge studied education and theology at the Roehampton Institute, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1992.^[2][3] She was a youth and children's worker, and then worked for the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS), an evangelical Anglican mission agency.^[3]

Having trained for ordination at Queen's College, Birmingham, she was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2010 and as a priest in 2011.^[2] She served her curacy at St Nicolas Church, Nuneaton in the Diocese of Coventry from 2010 to 2014.^[2] She was then vicar of the same church and priest-in-charge of Weddington and Caldecote.^[3][4] After being announced as the next Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro in January 2021,^[5] she was licensed as archdeacon during a service at St Petroc's Church, Bodmin on 23 May 2021.^[1] She is additionally serving as director of intergenerational church for the Diocese.^[5]

Her consecration into bishop's orders is scheduled for 15 October 2025; on that day, she becomes Bishop of Basingstoke.^[6]