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Kelly Anne Betteridge (born 1969) is a British Anglican bishop, currently served as the Bishop of Basingstoke, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Winchester. Previously, she was the Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro, having held that position from May 2021[1][2] until October 2025.

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 in 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 was also director of intergenerational church initiatives for the diocese.[5]

Betteridge was consecrated to the episcopate on 15 October 2025; on that day she became Bishop of Basingstoke.[6] The service was held at Southwark Cathedral and the principal consecrator was Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Kelly Betteridge licensed as Archdeacon of Bodmin". Truro Diocese. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Kelly Anne Betteridge". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Kelly Betteridge to be Archdeacon of Bodmin". Diocese of Coventry. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  4. ^ Malyon, Mike (29 April 2014). "Kelly makes history as Nuneaton church's first woman vicar". Coventry telegraph. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b "New Archdeacon of Bodmin announced". Truro Diocese. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  6. ^ "New Bishop of Basingstoke Announced by Downing Street". Diocese of Winchester. 28 August 2025. Archived from the original on 5 October 2025. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  7. ^ "Celebrating the Consecration of Our New Bishop of Basingstoke". Diocese of Winchester. 26 October 2025. Archived from the original on 13 November 2025. Retrieved 13 November 2025.