Kelly Betteridge
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]
Biography[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Kelly Betteridge licensed as Archdeacon of Bodmin". Truro Diocese. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Kelly Anne Betteridge". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ a b c "Kelly Betteridge to be Archdeacon of Bodmin". Diocese of Coventry. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ Malyon, Mike (29 April 2014). "Kelly makes history as Nuneaton church's first woman vicar". Coventry telegraph. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ a b "New Archdeacon of Bodmin announced". Truro Diocese. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.