Orval John Nease (1891–1950) was a minister,
Nazarene General Superintendent, and president of
Pasadena College. He was the brother of
Floyd W. Nease
Floyd William Nease (1893–1930) was an American minister and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College until his death in 1930. He is the grandfather of Floyd William Nease II, as well as Linda Nease Scott (a recently retired /2020emp ...
, also a Nazarene college president.
Early life and education
Nease was born December 25, 1891, in
Nashville, Michigan, the son of William O. Nease, a Nazarene evangelist. He received his
bachelor's degree from
Pasadena College in 1916, a
master's degree from
Boston University in 1925, and a
doctor of divinity
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from
Pasadena College in 1931.
Career
He was pastor of the First Churches of the Nazarene in
Malden, Massachusetts
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History
Malden, a hilly woodland area north of the Mystic River, was settled by Puritans in 1640 on la ...
,
Columbus, Ohio
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, and
Detroit,
Michigan. He served as president of
alma mater Pasadena College.
He was also a
general superintendent in the
Church of the Nazarene first elected in 1940.
[THE SECOND WORK OF GRACE, Edited and Compiled by David Shelby Corlett, Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House (1950), 34. Accessed Mar. 10, 2009](_blank)
/ref> He has the distinction of being the only member of the Board of General Superintendents ever removed. He was re-elected to the General Superintendency in 1948.
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1891 births
1950 deaths
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Boston University alumni
Point Loma Nazarene University alumni
American Nazarene ministers