Diocesan Theological Institute

The Diocesan Theological Institute was an Anglican seminary founded by John Strachan in Cobourg, Ontario on 10 January1842. In 1852 the Institute was succeeded by the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Trinity College, Toronto. The Trinity College Literary Institute, one of Canada's oldest student and debating societies, began as the debating society of the Diocesan Theological Institute in the 1840s.