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.[5] After a curacy in Alton,[6] she held incumbencies in the Diocese of Guildford, first as vicar of Crondall and Ewshot from 2006 to 2012,[7] and then as vicar of The Bourne and Tilford from 2012 to 2016.[8] She was appointed Diocesan Advisor on Women's Ministry in 2010,[9] and in 2016 she was appointed Archdeacon of Norwich.[10] On 4 April 2022,[11] she became Lay Ministry Development Officer in the Diocese of Salisbury.[12]