Trinity College, Toronto

For other institutions with similar names, see Trinity University (disambiguation) and Trinity College (disambiguation).
Trinity College
Latin: Collegium Sacrosanctæ Trinitatis[1]
MottoΜετ’ ἀγῶνα στέφανος
Met’agona stephanos
(Ancient Greek)
Motto in English
After the contest, the crown[2]
EstablishedAugust 2, 1851; 173 years ago (August 2, 1851)[3]
FounderJohn Strachan
Parent institution
University of Toronto
Religious affiliation
Anglican Church of Canada
Endowment$90.9 million (2024)[4]
ChancellorBrian Lawson
ProvostNicholas Terpstra
Undergraduates1,763[5]
Postgraduates100[5]
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

43°39′56″N 79°23′45″W / 43.66556°N 79.39583°W / 43.66556; -79.39583
Colours   Scarlet and Black[6]
Websitewww.trinity.utoronto.ca Edit this at Wikidata

Trinity College (occasionally referred to as The University of Trinity College) is a federated college of the University of Toronto. The college was founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. Strachan originally intended Trinity as a university of strong Anglican alignment, after the University of Toronto severed its ties with the Church of England. After five decades as an independent institution, Trinity joined the university in 1904 as a member of its collegiate federation.

Today, Trinity College consists of a secular undergraduate section and a postgraduate divinity school which is part of the Toronto School of Theology. Through its diploma granting authority in the field of divinity, Trinity maintains legal university status.[7] Trinity hosts three of the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Sciences' undergraduate programs: international relations; ethics, society and law; and immunology.[8]

More than half of Trinity students graduate from the University of Toronto with distinction or high distinction.[9] The college has produced 43 Rhodes Scholars as of 2020.[10] Among the college's more notable collections are a seventeenth-century Flemish tapestry,[11] two first-edition theses by Martin Luther,[12] numerous original, signed works by Winston Churchill,[13] a 1491 edition of Dante's Divine Comedy censored by the Spanish Inquisition,[14] and Bishop Strachan's silver epergne.[15]

Among the University of Toronto Colleges, Trinity is notable for being the smallest by population, and for its trappings of Oxbridge heritage. Trinity manages its student government through direct democracy, and hosts a litany of clubs and societies.[16]

  1. ^ Records of The Tercentenary Festival of Dublin University. Dublin, Ireland: Hodges, Figgis & Co. 1894. ISBN 9781355361602.
  2. ^ "Trinity Magazine".
  3. ^ "Statutes for Trinity College and St. Hilda's College". www.trinity.utoronto.ca.
  4. ^ Trinity College Audited Financial Statements, Year Ended April 30, 2019 (PDF) (Report). 2024-10-21. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
  5. ^ a b "Provost's Report To Corporation" (PDF). 24 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  6. ^ Reed, T. A., ed. (1952). A History of the University of Trinity College, Toronto, 1852–1952. University of Toronto Press. p. 82.
  7. ^ "Accreditation and Quality Assurance". www.trinity.utoronto.ca.
  8. ^ "Study: Arts & Science".
  9. ^ "About Trinity".
  10. ^ "Trinity's Kaleem Hawa and James Flynn Awarded Rhodes Scholarships 2016".
  11. ^ "Unravelling the origins of the Strachan Hall tapestry – Trinity Magazine".
  12. ^ Hogendoorn, Christopher (October 6, 2017). "From the Saunderson Rare Books Room: Martin Luther Treatises".
  13. ^ Library, Graham (April 7, 2017). "Rare Book of the Month: Churchill's The World Crisis".
  14. ^ Library, Graham (October 5, 2018). "Rare Book of the Month: No one Expects the Spanish Inquisition in Danthe alighieri fiorentino".
  15. ^ Library, Graham (December 7, 2018). "From the Archives: the Trinity Silver Collection".
  16. ^ "Why Trinity?". www.trinity.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2018-10-14.