| Type: | priest |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Reverend |
| Karen Hutchinson | |
| Lay Ministry Development Officer | |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Salisbury |
| Term: | 2022–present |
| Other Post: | Archdeacon of Norwich (2016–2022) |
| Ordination: | 2001 (deacon) 2002 (priest) |
| Tomb: | --> |
| Nationality: | British |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Previous Post: | --> |
| Alma Mater: | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Wycliffe Hall, Oxford |
Karen Elizabeth Hutchinson[1] (born 1964) is a British Church of England priest. She served as the Archdeacon of Norwich[2] between 2016[3] and 2022.
Hutchinson read Mathematics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She qualified as a solicitor in 1989.[4]
She was ordained in 2002. After a curacy in Alton,[5] she held incumbencies in the Diocese of Guildford, first as vicar of Crondall and Ewshot from 2006 to 2012,[6] and then as vicar of The Bourne and Tilford from 2012 to 2016.[7] She was appointed Diocesan Advisor on Women's Ministry in 2010,[8] and in 2016 she was appointed Archdeacon of Norwich.[9] On 4 April 2022,[10] she became Lay Ministry Development Officer in the Diocese of Salisbury.[11]