A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an organization 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

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
  • General Assembly of Uruguay, the national legislature of Uruguay
  • General Assembly of the Empire of Brazil, parliament of the Empire of Brazil

United States state legislatures

  • Arkansas General Assembly
  • Colorado General Assembly
  • Connecticut General Assembly
  • Delaware General Assembly
  • Georgia General Assembly
  • Illinois General Assembly
  • Indiana General Assembly
  • Iowa General Assembly
  • Kentucky General Assembly
  • Maryland General Assembly
  • Missouri General Assembly
  • New Jersey General Assembly, lower house of the bicameral New Jersey Legislature
  • New York General Assembly (historical colonial)
  • North Carolina General Assembly
  • Ohio General Assembly
  • Pennsylvania General Assembly
  • Rhode Island General Assembly
  • South Carolina General Assembly
  • Tennessee General Assembly
  • Vermont General Assembly
  • Virginia General Assembly

Other uses

  • General Assembly (horse), American throughbred racehorse
  • General assembly (Occupy movement), the primary decision-making bodies of the global Occupy Movement which arose in 2011
  • General Assembly (school), a private for-profit education company
  • General Assembly, a fictional international council from the browser game NationStates

See also

  • Annual general meeting
  • 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