The Church of the Nazarene

Denomination·Founded 1908 CE·est. 2,724,006 members in 30,747 congregations across 165 world areas, from the denomination's own reporting. Growth is almost entirely outside the United States and Canada — the Africa and Asia-Pacific regions have expanded while the American membership has been flat or declining for two decades.

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Church of the Nazarene

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Community

who belongs, how you join, how it is organized
Women were ordained from the beginning, and then largely stopped being. Bresee ordained women, and by 1908 a substantial share of Nazarene ministers were women. The proportion collapsed through the mid-twentieth century as the denomination professionalised and suburbanised, and recovering it has been official policy for decades with limited effect. Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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