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SYNDESMOS was founded in 1953 to encourage contacts among Orthodox youth throughout the world. At its peak in the 1990's the fellowship was made up of 121 Member Movements. These are various Orthodox youth organizations and movements and theological schools from more than forty different countries. The member movements, each blessed by their local [[bishop]], were organised into three categories: Affiliated, Federated, or Associated. From 1992, youth movements of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] had been able to join the fellowship as federated members, with their own vice-president.
From its founding in 1953 the fellowship convened 18 General Assemblies with the first being in April 1953 in Sevres, France, and the last being in Pireaus, Greece in February 2009. The fellowship attempted to organise an assembly in August 2014 in Nemat, Romania. With fewer than ten members of the fellowship present, and failing to elect a president and board, as per the its constitution of the fellowship, the gathering was just that, a gathering of Orthodox youth movements and is not considered to have been a general assembly. At this gathering this gathering two "co-moderators" were installed in place of a president, and four individuals were installed as "members-at-large" of the board. This "board" has attempted to administer the fellowship since then but having been installed at a gathering that did not meet the requirments of a general assembly, and themselves failing to issue a report of the 2014 meeting, conduct timely financial audits and the convene a general assembly Syndesmos presently exisits in name only. Presently Syndesmos neither has a board of administraiton, nor is it registered as a legal entity.
==Organization 1953 - 2014==
