Church of the Nazarene, Protestant denomination created by the merger of three independent holiness sects (see Holiness Churches), and organized in its present form at Pilot Point, Texas, in 1908. The denomination's principal governing body is a general assembly, which meets quadrennially. The international headquarters of the church is in Kansas City, Missouri.

The original Church of the Nazarene was founded in Los Angeles in 1895. Its merger with an eastern holiness sect, the Association of Pentecostal Churches in America, in Chicago (1907), resulted in the formation of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. In 1908, at Pilot Point, the Holiness Church of Christ, a southern group, joined the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene to give the denomination substantially its present form. The name of the denomination was changed to Church of the Nazarene in 1919

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