Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley (née Francis; born 28 May 1973) is a British Anglican diocesean bishop, Lord Spiritual, and academic.

[4][5] Her DPhil thesis concerned the portrayal of manual labour in Judaism and Early Christianity,[12] and was titled "We worked night and day that we might not burden any of you (1 Thessalonians 2:9): aspects of the portrayal of work in the Letters of Paul, late Second Temple Judaism, the Græco-Roman world and early Christianity".

[3] Hartley was ordained in the Church of England: made a deacon at Michaelmas 2005 (24 September), by Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,[15] and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (24 September 2006), by Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester, at Dorchester Abbey.

[14] In November 2011, Hartley was selected to become Dean of Tikanga Pakeha, i.e. European heritage, students at St John's College, Auckland in New Zealand.

[12][17] She originally went to St John's College in 2010 to research for a book, Making Sense of the Bible, before moving to New Zealand to take up the appointment of Dean in early 2012.

[12][18] In September 2013, at the age of 40, Hartley was elected to become the seventh Bishop of Waikato in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

[21] In October 2022, it was announced that Hartley would take up the post of Bishop of Newcastle in early 2023, succeeding Christine Hardman, who retired in November 2021.

[31] Hartley stepped down from this role in February 2024 after what she called "serious concerns" over the appointment for 6 months of Reverend Dr Thomas Woolford as interim theological adviser to the House of Bishops; she said that Woolford's appointment was having "a critically negative impact on the work Bishop Martyn and [she] were seeking, in good faith, to do" and that being co-lead bishop for the LLF process was "now undermining [her] capacity to fulfil my primary calling, to lead and care for the people and places of the diocese of Newcastle".

[33] In May 2023, Hartley suspended honorary assistant bishop Lord Sentamu's permission to officiate in Newcastle Diocese because his statement about a review that found that he had failed to act on a disclosure of abuse when he had been Archbishop of York was "inconsistent with the tone and culture I expect around safeguarding in Newcastle".

[35] In November 2024, Hartley alleged that she had "experienced as coercive language" text from Archbishops Justin Welby and Stephen Cottrell, in a letter requesting her to reinstate Lord Sentamu's permission to officiate.

The letter was sent on 31 October 2024, shortly before the Makin review was released, which highlighted ongoing issues in the Church’s approach to safeguarding.

"[38] Writing in The Independent, Peter Stanford also appeared to see her as a likely candidate for the post, saying: "If anyone can still save the Church of England and fill that void in leadership, it is surely her.