Trinity term is the third and final term of the academic year at the
University of Oxford
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,Oxford University: Regulations on the number and lengths of terms , University of Oxford, UK.
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...
,
Canterbury Christ Church University
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, and some
private schools
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in the United Kingdom. It runs from about mid-April to about the end of June and is named after
Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christianity, Western Christian liturgical year, liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Christianity. Trinity Sunday celebrates the Christian doctrine of the ...
, which falls eight weeks after Easter, in May or June.
At the University of Oxford, following the resolution made by Council on 8 May 2002, Trinity Term begins on and includes 20 April or the Wednesday after Easter, whichever is later, and ends on and includes 6 July. In Trinity Term, as in Michaelmas Term and
Hilary Term
Hilary term is the second academic term of the University of Oxford The dates on which each Full Term will begin and end in the next academic year but one are published by the Registrar in the University Gazette during Hilary Term.
At the
University of Sydney
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, it was the second and coldest of the three terms, running from the 24th to the 34th Mondays of the year (late May to early August) in the middle of winter, until Sydney changed over to the two semester system in 1989.
Courts of Law
The Trinity term is also one of four into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales, from 22 May to 12 June, during which the superior courts were formerly open. ''Trinity term'' is also used for the sitting of the
High Court of Justice
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