Trinity College, Toronto

Trinity Institution (also known as The University of Trinity College) is a federated college with the University of Toronto that was established in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. It is also referred to as The University of Trinity College. As a direct result of the Institution of Toronto's decision to dissolve its links with the Church of England, Strachan wanted Trinity to be a university with a strong Anglican orientation. Trinity College, after more than 50 years as an autonomous school, became a member of the University in 1904, when it became a member of its college federation.

In today's world, Trinity College is split into two categories: the secular undergraduate component and the postgraduate divinity school, which is a division of the Toronto School of Theology. Trinity retains its legal university status in the area of divinity via its diploma-granting authority in the subject of divinity. Three undergraduate programmes from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts and Sciences are housed in Trinity College: international relations, ethics, society, and law, as well as immunology.

More than half of Trinity students graduate from the University of Toronto with honours or high honours, according to the university. According to the most recent statistics, the college has produced an exceptionally high number of Rhodes Scholars for a school of its size, with 43 in total as of 2020. Two first-edition theses by Martin Luther, many original signed works by Winston Churchill, a 1491 copy of Dante's Divine Comedy prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition, and Bishop Strachan's silver epergne are among the college's most renowned holdings.

Trinity College is unique among the University of Toronto Colleges in that it is the smallest in terms of population and that it retains the trappings of its Oxbridge heritage; the college hosts weekly formal dinners, maintains the tradition of academic gowns, manages its student government through direct democracy, and hosts a plethora of clubs and societies.