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Chancellor of a Diocese, or of a Bishop, a law officer, appointed to hold the Bishop's Court in his diocese, and to adjudicate upon matters of ecclesiastical law. He is the vicar-general of the bishop, and by Canon 127 must be at least 26 years old, must be learned in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws, must be at least a Master of Arts or Bachelor of Law, and 'reasonably well practised in the course thereof, as likewise well affected, and zealous bent to religion, touching whose life and manners no evil example is had.' By the same canon, he must take the Oath of Supremacy and subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (see that title).