General assembly

A general assembly is a meeting of all the members of an organisation or shareholders of a company.

Specific examples of general assembly include:

Churches

• General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of presbyterian polity
  • General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, highest court of the Church of Scotland
  • General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, highest court of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
• General Assembly (Unitarian Universalist Association), annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists of the Unitarian Universalist Association
• General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, umbrella organisation for Unitarian, Free Christian and other religious congregations in the United Kingdom
• General Ordinary Assembly, advisory body for the Pope in the Catholic Church
• World Evangelical Alliance#General Assemblies

International organizations

• FIA General Assembly, an international motor-racing organization
• General Assembly of the Organization of American States, the main body of the OAS
• United Nations General Assembly, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations

National or sub-national legislatures

• Confederate Ireland's parliament, during 1642-1649
• General Assembly of Nova Scotia, the legislature of that Canadian province

Other uses

• General assembly (Occupy movement), the primary decision making bodies of the global Occupy Movement which arose in 2011
• General Assembly of Trans Europe Halles
• General Assembly, a private for-profit education company.

See also

• Popular assembly, a gathering called to address issues of importance to participants
• ICCA Congress & Exhibition, the annual meeting of the International Congress and Convention Association
• Conference
• Assembly (disambiguation)
• Landsgemeinde, institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons

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