Kelly Anne Betteridge (born 1969) is a British Anglican priest. Since May 2021, she has been Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro.[1][2]
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]
