Nazarene is a title used to describe people from the city of Nazareth in the New Testament, and is a title applied to Jesus, who, according to the New Testament, grew up in Nazareth, a town in Galilee, now in northern Israel.

What does Nazarene mean in English?

1 : a native or resident of Nazareth. 2a : christian sense 1a. b : a member of the Church of the Nazarene that is a Protestant denomination deriving from the merging of three holiness groups, stressing sanctification, and following Methodist polity.

What religion is Nazarene?

In short, the name Nazarene means being of the Christian faith. The Church of the Nazarene is an international Protestant denomination within the holiness tradition. In fact, the Church of the Nazarene is the largest denomination in the classical Wesleyan-Holiness tradition.