Kelly Betteridge
{{Short description|British Anglican priest}}
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Kelly Anne Betteridge (born 1969) is a British Anglican priest. Since May 2021, she has been Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro.{{cite web |title=Kelly Betteridge licensed as Archdeacon of Bodmin |url=https://trurodiocese.org.uk/2021/05/kelly-betteridge-licensed-as-archdeacon-of-bodim/ |website=Truro Diocese |access-date=12 June 2021 |language=en |date=2021-05-23}}{{Crockford |forenames=Kelly Anne |surname=Betteridge |id=1264 |accessed=12 June 2021 }}
Biography
Betteridge studied education and theology at the Roehampton Institute, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1992.{{cite web |title=Kelly Betteridge to be Archdeacon of Bodmin |url=https://www.coventry.anglican.org/news/kelly-betteridge-to-be-archdeacon-of-bodmin.php |website=Diocese of Coventry |access-date=12 June 2021 |date=31 January 2021}} She was a youth and children's worker, and then worked for the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS), an evangelical Anglican mission agency.
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. She served her curacy at St Nicolas Church, Nuneaton in the Diocese of Coventry from 2010 to 2014. She was then vicar of the same church and priest-in-charge of Weddington and Caldecote.{{cite news |last1=Malyon |first1=Mike |title=Kelly makes history as Nuneaton church's first woman vicar |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/kelly-makes-history-nuneaton-churchs-7049595 |access-date=12 June 2021 |work=Coventry telegraph |date=2014-04-29 |language=en}} After being announced as the next Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro in January 2021,{{cite web |title=New Archdeacon of Bodmin announced |url=https://trurodiocese.org.uk/2021/01/new-archdeacon-of-bodmin-announced/ |website=Truro Diocese |access-date=12 June 2021 |language=en |date=2021-01-31}} she was licensed as archdeacon during a service at St Petroc's Church, Bodmin on 23 May 2021. She is additionally serving as director of intergenerational church for the Diocese.
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Category:Archdeacons of Bodmin
Category:21st-century British Anglican priests