THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE I.A.O.

The General Assembly of the IAO, which constitutes the supreme body, is made up of two-member parliamentary delegations from the parliaments which are participating in the movement, decreed by the presidia of the parliaments of each country. It meets once a year in predesignated cities, in countries which are members of the I.A.O. Up to this day, Assemblies have convened in the following cities, with the following main subjects:

1993 - Founding- Ormylia, Chalkidiki , Greece . Main subject: "Orthodoxy in the new European Reality".

1994-1st- Athens , Greece . Main subject: "The Interparliamentary Committee of Orthodox Members of Parliaments of the European Countries and its mission in the new European reality".

1995 -2nd- Moscow , Russia . Main subject: "The Cultural and Enlightenment Tradition of Orthodoxy".

1996-3th- Sofia , Bulgaria . Main subject: "The Social Dimension of Orthodoxy."

1997-4th- Chalkidiki, Greece . Main subject: "Orthodoxy in the context of the European civilization- history and future".

1998-5th- Warsaw , Poland . Main subject: "The problems of the novel heresies (sects) in the E.I.A.O. countries and effective ways of dealing with them".

1999-6th- Moscow - St.Petersburg. Main subject: "Ways of legal protection of the traditional family as a diachronic value of society".

2000-7th- Jerusalem , Israel . Main subject: "What do people say about the Son of Man (Mat. 16, 13 ) in the year 2000 AD?".

2001-8th- Patmos , Greece . Main subject: "The contribution of the Orthodox conception in the expanded European Union".

2002-9th- Bucharest , Romania . Main subject: "Globalization and Orthodoxy».

2003-10 th - Vilnius , Lithuania . Main subject: "War-Poverty. The Orthodox viewpoint".

2004- 11th - Kiev , Ukraine . Main subject: " Security with freedom ".

2005- 12 th - Geneva , Switzerland . Main subject:

"Christianism before the challenges of the modern era".

2006- 13 th - Venice, Italy . Main subject:

"The contribution of the Orthodox culture to the construction of the New Europe".

2007- 14th - Astana, Kazakhstan. Main subject:

"The Inter-religious dialogue as a factor of peaceful and fair relationships among peoples".

2008- 15th - Rhodes, Greece. Main subject:

"The crisis of the global value system as a challenge before Christian Orthodoxy".