27 Qualification of deans, archdeacons, and canons.
No person shall hereafter be capable of receiving the appointment of dean F1... F2, archdeacon, or canon, until he shall have been six years complete in F3holy orders and, in the case of a dean F1 ... or archdeacon, be in priest’s orders at the time of the appointment, except in the case of a canonry annexed to any professorship, headship, or other office in any university.