High Chancellor

The High Chancellor (also called the Chancellor or Lord Chancellor) was an office of the High Council. The Time Lord who held the position was, in the absence of a Vice President, (AUDIO: Appropriation) the second most powerful person on the Council. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)

The Chancellor was ranked third in the governmental hierarchy, below the President and Vice President (TV: The Invasion of Time, PROSE: The Ancestor Cell, AUDIO: Lies) and above the Castellan. (AUDIO: Pandora) The position was desirable as, in the absence of a President, the Chancellor could automatically take the office. (AUDIO: Mindbomb)

Appointment
The Chancellor was ordinarily appointed by the President. (AUDIO: Pandora) However, in the absence of the Fourth Doctor, the High Council ratified Cardinal Borusa's appointment as Chancellor. As the High Council required the President to ratify such appointments, the legality of this was questioned. (TV: The Invasion of Time) In another occurrence, President Romana allowed the Council to appoint Valyes as Acting Chancellor following Braxiatel's flight. (AUDIO: Insurgency)

Duties
Among the Chancellor's regular duties was jurisdiction over the Chancellery Guard. (AUDIO: Pandora)

The Chancellor was secretly entrusted with holding the Great Key of Rassilon. (TV: The Invasion of Time)

History
Flavia combined the offices of Chancellor and President when she became President. (AUDIO: Lies) This was a tradition that President Romana did not wish to break by giving the chancellorship to Braxiatel, believing that it could be seen as centralising power. Braxiatel, however, thought the opposite. (AUDIO: Pandora)

By the time of the run-up to the War in Heaven, there were four different Chancellors: the Chancellor of Time Past, the Chancellor of Time Present, the Chancellor of Time Future, and the Chancellor of Time Parallel. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)

Shortly after his resurrection, Rassilon dissolved the High Chancellor title, with its then incumbent Livia instead becoming Prime Minister. (AUDIO: Havoc) However, there was a Chancellor by the end of the war. (TV: The End of Time)

Known Chancellors
Known holders of this office included Slann, (PROSE: Birth of a Renegade) a male chancellor, (TV: The Three Doctors) Delox, (PROSE: Divided Loyalties) Goth, (TV: The Deadly Assassin) Borusa, (TV: The Invasion of Time) Thalia, (TV: Arc of Infinity) Flavia, (TV: The Five Doctors) Theora, (PROSE: Lungbarrow) Braxiatel, (AUDIO: Pandora) Valyes, (AUDIO: Insurgency, Fractures) Jerastra, Volstrom, (AUDIO: Songs of Love) the Chancellor, (TV: The End of Time) and, on an alternate Gallifrey, Narvin. (AUDIO: Forever)

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