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Ellen Jane Clark-King ( ' Clark'''; born 1962) is a British-Canadian Anglican priest and academic. Since 2020, she has served as Dean of King's College London.
In 2005, Clark-King left the United Kingdom for the Anglican Church of Canada: she was looking for an inclusive church that was welcoming of LGBTQ clergy and accepted same-sex marriage. She served as associate pastor of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver between 2005 and 2012. She was additionally Archdeacon of Burrard from 2007 to 2014. From 2012 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2016, she was cathedral vicar of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. For the 2014/15 academic year, she was director for Anglican formation at the Vancouver School of Theology. She was also an elected member of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada. She took Canadian citizenship during her time in the country.
In December 2016, she moved to the United States, where she became executive pastor and canon for social justice at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco in the Episcopal Diocese of California. She was promoted to vice-dean in September 2019. She was an elected member of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Having returned to the United Kingdom, she has been Dean of King's College London since December 2020: this is the most senior cleric of the university, and is tasked with overseeing the spiritual development and welfare of all its students and staff. She is the first woman to hold the post in the almost two centuries of the college's existence. She has additionally been a non-stipendiary minister at St Anne's Church, Soho in the Diocese of London since 2021, and a public preacher in the Diocese of Southwark since 2022.
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