The celebration of the Feast of Jesus Nazareno on January 9, 2025 marked the first year that it is celebrated as a national feast following the approval of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines on its 126th plenary assembly in July 2023.

This is also the first year that the feast is celebrated after the Minor Basillica of the Black Nazarene was officially declared a National Shrine by Manila Archbishop Jose F. Cardinal Advincula on January 29, 2024.

Between 2007 to 2016, five other parishes have been declared by their local dioceses as 'shrines dedicated to Jesus Nazareno' which serves as regional centers of the feast and devotion to the Jesus Nazarene.

"Since the devotion to the Jesus Nazareno has been spread out across the country even before it was designated as a national shrine, it meant a lot of significance to many of his devotees in different parts of the country," said Bro. Kendrick Ivan Panganiban, lay secretary of the Association of Catholic Shrines and Pilgrimages of the Philippines.

"That is why in recent years, a number of churches were designated as shrines in honor of the Jesus Nazareno as a means to further strengthen the devotion in these places and they may also be considered 'regional centers' of the devotion," Panganiban added.

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The first regional center to be declared a shrine dedicated to Jesus Nazarene is the Cebu Archdiocesan Shrine of Jesus Nazareno when it was in its old site in Cansojong on November 30, 2007. The shrine has a new site since 2024 in Dumlog, Talisay City where the official replica of the Jesus Nazarene was transferred from Quiapo Church- Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Jesus Nazareno on December 28, 2024.

For this year's feast, the Cebu Archdiocesan Shrine of Jesus Nazareno celebrated a pontifical mass led by Archbishop Jose Serofia Palma, D.D. In a video shared by the Cebu shrine's official Facebook account, it is visible that its present structure is only made of galvanized iron roof and scaffolding because its new site is under construction.

The Cebu shrine held a foot procession on the eve of the Feast of the Jesus Nazarene on January 8 which started from the shrine then went around the city hall and back to the shrine while the image of the Jesus Nazarene was carried by a red pickup truck.

The second to be declared a shrine on May 5, 2009 is the Shrine of Jesus the Black Nazarene of Capalonga & Parish of Saint Lucy in Capalonga, Camarines Norte.

On December 4, 2011, the Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of Black Nazarene, The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro, was declared another shrine dedicated to the Jesus Nazarene. In recent years, devotees in this city came in droves to join the local traslacion with year's count reaching to 13,000, according to the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office.

Bayan Patroller Josephine Simene, a devotee of the Jesus Nazareno from the same city shared a video of the traslacion in front of the  Jesus Nazareno Parish Parish, Shrine of the Black Nazarene.

Simene said her 20-year old son almost died from a motor accident in 2024. Today, January 9, she joins the traslacion in the city to thank the Nazarene for saving his son and to ask for continuous guidance.

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Meanwhile, the Saint Louis Beltran Parish - Shrine of Poong Hesus Nazareno, in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, was declared the a shrine dedicated to the Jesus Nazarene on April 14, 2014.

The last to be declared as such is the Diocesan Shrine of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno (Diocesan Shrine Npjn) in Bgy. Cawayan, Catarman, Northern Samar on September 12, 2016.

Meanwhile, Panganiban explained that, "As for Quiapo Church, the reason we had it applied as a national shrine is in order for it to be a recognized national center of the devotion since in 1988 it was only declared as a basilica."

He added that the application for national shrine became a premise for the January 9, 2025 event to be declared a national feast, which the CBCP did so on January 29, 2024.