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Trinity College, informally known as Trinity or TC, is a Catholic school for boys in Perth, Western Australia. The school is a member of the Public Schools Association and the Junior School Heads Association of Australia.

The Trinity College campus is located on crown land in East Perth on the Swan River Foreshore. It lies on Trinity Avenue, an extension of Hay Street. The site consists of sporting grounds, a senior school for years 8-12 and a junior school for years 4-7.

Trinity College was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1962, and various Brothers continued to be present at the school until 2005, when the last, Br. Rob Callen, left the school's Campus Ministry. The College still remains to have strong ties with the Christian Brothers, and many brothers visit the college for the annual Edmund Rice Mass, a celebration in the memory of the Christian Brothers' Founder.

Its predecessor, Christian Brothers College (CBC) was founded in 1894 by Bishop Matthew Gibney, Brother Patrick Ambrose Treacy and the Christian Brothers with its main campus in St Georges Terrace. It was located in the heart of the Perth CBD, on the corner of Victoria Avenue and St Georges Terrace. CBC Perth had a brother school named St Patrick's that also taught boarders and day students. In 1938 St Patricks School closed and many of the students were moved to CBC Perth. In that same year, heads of CBC were notified that CBC could no longer handle both day students and borders due to the lack of space on campus. It was decided that borders and some day boys would be moved to an alternative campus, Aquinas College, to fit the needs of all students.

In 1958-1960, the City of Perth negotiated with the Christian Brothers to purchase the CBC property for £267,000 to allow for the widening of St Georges Terrace and the construction of a new hotel in time for the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. The Chevron-Hilton Hotel Group, which had committed to the development, ran into difficulties, and the school buildings remained until their eventual demolition in the mid-1960s. The site stayed vacant for several years until an office building for the Australian Taxation Office was built there several years later.

The council provided a 5.7-hectare (14-acre) site on reclaimed land in East Perth on the banks of the Swan River, and adjacent to the WACA Ground and The Causeway. The new college was renamed Trinity College and opened in time for the start of the school year in 1962 with space for 830 day boys. The official opening was held on 25 March 1962.

After the East Perth move, lay teachers gradually replaced brothers who had taught there previously. In 1994 the first lay principal was appointed.

Trinity College focuses on developing each and every student's potential in what are known as the four pillars of Trinity College life:

• The Spirit

• The Mind

• The Body

• Music

In sport, Trinity competes against the other schools of the PSA competition which it joined in 1968.Trinity teams have won the 1st XVIII football competition 4 years in a row, and the Athletics 3 years in a row.

Trinity's arch rival in the PSA is Aquinas College. This rivalry has evolved over the years and comes about as Trinity and Aquinas where once the same school , the close ties between the two schools ,the sprited even tussles on the sporting field and the common bond of being Christian Brothers schools. Aquinas is also Trinity's brother school.

In 2007 Trinity won the PSA swimming for the first the first time. They also won five of the seven summer sport trophies, which is one of the best hauls in PSA history.

The school motto is In Nomine Domine which means In the name of the Lord and is also the title of the School anthem. The phrase is taken from Psalm 123: "Adjutorium nostrum In Nomine Domini qui fecit caelum et terram"-"Our help is in the name of The Lord who made the Heavens and the earth"

The current Trinity College Coat of Arms was approved in 1962, and includes three crowns which symbolise the Christian Holy Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The crowns also symbolise rule and kingship, and are arranged such as to emphasise the equality of all three parts of the Holy Trinity. The "M" symbolises the schools devotion to Mary, the Blessed Mother of God, and the two Celtic Crosses on either side of the Marian symbol signify the schools close ties with the Irish Catholics, including the founder of the Christian Brothers, Edmund Rice, who was born in Westcourt, Ireland.^[1]

Trinity's sister school is Mercedes College.

Former students are called Trinity Old Boys

• Beau Casson
• Jim Clarko
• Andrew Embley
• Dennis Horgan
• Simon Katich
• Ashley Sampi
• Craig Serjeant
• Bob Shields
• John Steffensen
• Tim Zoehrer
• Dave Faulkner
• Michael Brennan
• Chris Ellison
• Michael Edgley
• Mark Reddings
• Peter Tannock
• Thomas McCormick
• Gerard Arangio

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  Chapel and Gibney Hall
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  Towards the telescope observatory
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  View across the main oval

• Trinity College Website

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