diff --git a/django/template/loaders/utils.py b/django/template/loaders/utils.py
index fe7234ea1c..a49b3ecfde 100644
--- a/django/template/loaders/utils.py
+++ b/django/template/loaders/utils.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.utils import lru_cache
 from django.utils import six
-from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
 from django.utils.module_loading import import_string
 
 
@@ -28,34 +27,20 @@ def find_template_loader(loader):
         loader, args = loader[0], loader[1:]
     else:
         args = []
+
     if isinstance(loader, six.string_types):
-        TemplateLoader = import_string(loader)
+        loader_class = import_string(loader)
+        loader_instance = loader_class(*args)
 
-        if hasattr(TemplateLoader, 'load_template_source'):
-            func = TemplateLoader(*args)
-        else:
-            warnings.warn(
-                "Function-based template loaders are deprecated. "
-                "Please use class-based template loaders instead. "
-                "Inherit django.template.loaders.base.Loader "
-                "and provide a load_template_source() method.",
-                RemovedInDjango20Warning, stacklevel=2)
-
-            # Try loading module the old way - string is full path to callable
-            if args:
-                raise ImproperlyConfigured(
-                    "Error importing template source loader %s - can't pass "
-                    "arguments to function-based loader." % loader)
-            func = TemplateLoader
-
-        if not func.is_usable:
+        if not loader_instance.is_usable:
             warnings.warn(
                 "Your TEMPLATE_LOADERS setting includes %r, but your Python "
                 "installation doesn't support that type of template loading. "
                 "Consider removing that line from TEMPLATE_LOADERS." % loader)
             return None
         else:
-            return func
+            return loader_instance
+
     else:
         raise ImproperlyConfigured(
             "Invalid value in TEMPLATE_LOADERS: %r" % loader)
diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index 7247e4a2aa..666ff1f492 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -85,8 +85,6 @@ details on these changes.
 * The backwards compatibility alias ``django.template.loader.BaseLoader`` will
   be removed.
 
-* Support for function-based template loaders will be removed.
-
 .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.9:
 
 1.9
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index d55ed1820d..73c0e7a040 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -1040,13 +1040,6 @@ class decorators. As a consequence, when overriding ``setUpClass()`` or
 ``django.template.loaders.base.Loader``. If you've written a custom template
 loader that inherits ``BaseLoader``, you must inherit ``Loader`` instead.
 
-Function-based template loaders
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-In addition to the documented class-based API for custom template loaders,
-Django still supported to some extent an earlier function-based API. This
-private API wasn't maintained or tested. Now it's formally deprecated.
-
 ``django.test.utils.TestTemplateLoader``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~