This is a list of dignitaries at the funeral of Pope John Paul II. The funeral of Pope John Paul II commenced after the death of the pope on April 2, 2005 in Vatican City. Before official invitations were sent by the College of Cardinals, approximately 200 countries already had expressed interest to send representatives to the funeral of Pope John Paul II, which took place on April 8, 2005.

In order to accommodate all interested parties wishing to receive a seat during the Mass of Requiem, the Holy See limited the number of members in each official diplomatic delegation to only five people, except for the Polish delegation which, being John Paul II's homeland, was allowed ten people. That did not exclude other people of any nationality from attaining individual invitations, unrelated to the individual's country's delegation, which could have reached the limit of 5 – as did, for instance, Brazilian former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, whose presence in the funerals had no connection with the Brazilian delegation. In addition to it, any number of government officials were permitted to attend as pilgrim travellers, remaining outside the basilica during the Mass of Requiem with the general public. For example, the United States delegation included the president and first lady, two former presidents, and the secretary of state. They had seats in the basilica during the Mass of Requiem. Dozens of members of the U.S. Congress attended the Mass of Requiem, congregating among the general public outside the basilica.

The gathering of dignitaries made the funeral the largest gatherings of statesmen at any event. It was also the largest gathering of dignitaries since the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965. At the funeral, the dignitaries were seated alphabetically by the French spelling of their countries (this order of listing follows).

Official delegations

A

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Titles
Afghanistan		Hamid Karzai	president
Afrique du sud (South Africa)		Jacob Zuma Nelson Mandela	deputy president former president
Albanie (Albania)		Alfred Moisiu Fatos Nano Rexhep Mejdani Sali Berisha	president of the Republic prime minister former president of the Republic former president of the Republic
Algérie (Algeria)		Abdelaziz Bouteflika	president of the Republic
Allemagne (Germany)		Horst Köhler Gerhard Schröder Wolfgang Thierse Edmund Stoiber	president chancellor president of the Parliament prime minister of Bavaria
Andorre (Andorra)		Joan Enric Vives Sicília Marc Forné	co-prince head of the government
Angola		José Eduardo dos Santos	president of the Republic
Argentine (Argentina)		Daniel Scioli Rafael Bielsa Carlos Saúl Menem Eduardo Duhalde	vice-president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs former president former president
Arménie (Armenia)		Andranik Markaryan	prime minister
Australie (Australia)		Michael Jeffery Marlena Jeffery	governor-general spouse of governor-general
Autriche (Austria)		Heinz Fischer Margit Fischer Wolfgang Schüssel Hubert Gorbach Andreas Khol	federal president "first lady" federal chancellor vice-chancellor former president of the national council

B

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Bangladesh		Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf	minister de l'Alimentation et des Catastrophes naturelles
Belgique (Belgium)		Albert II Queen Paola Guy Verhofstadt Didier Reynders Herman De Croo	King of the Belgians Queen of the Belgians prime minister deputy prime minister president of the Lower House
Birmanie (Burma)		Khin Maung Aye Charles Bo	ambassador archbishop of Rangoon
Bolivie (Bolivia)		Carlos Mesa Juan Ignacio Siles	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs
Bosnie-Herzégovine (Bosnia and Herzegovina)		Borislav Paravac Sefik Dzaferovic Barisa Colak	president of the presidency president of parliament deputy prime minister
Brésil (Brazil)		Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Marisa Letícia Renan Calheiros Severino Cavalcante Nelson Jobim	president of the Republic "first lady" president of Senate president of House of Representatives president of Supreme Court
Bulgarie (Bulgaria)		Georgi Parvanov	president of the Republic

C

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Canada		Paul Martin Stephen Harper	prime minister leader of the opposition
Chili (Chile)		Ignacio Walker Prieto	minister of foreign affairs
Colombie (Colombia)		Francisco Santos Maria Victoria Santos	vice-president of the Republic spouse of vice-president of the Republic
Congo (Democratic Republic)		Joseph Kabila Jean-Pierre Bemba	president of the Republic vice-president of the Republic
Corée du Sud (South Korea)		Lee Hae-chan	prime minister
Costa Rica		Abel Pacheco Roberto Tovar Faja	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs
Croatie (Croatia)		Stipe Mesic Ivo Sanader	president of the Republic prime minister
Cuba		Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Caridad Diego Raúl Roa Kouri	president of the National Assembly chef of religious affairs of the Communist Party of Cuba ambassador to the Holy See

D

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Danemark (Denmark)		Margrethe II of Denmark Henrik Anders Fogh Rasmussen	queen prince consort prime minister
Dominicaine (Dominican Republic)		Margarita Cedeno Alejandrina German Carlos Rafael Marion-Landais	"first lady" secretary of Education ambassador to the Holy See

E

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Égypte (Egypt)		Farouk Hosni	minister of Culture
Émirats arabes unis (United Arab Emirates)		Abdallah ben Zayed Al-Nahayane	minister of Information
Espagne (Spain)		Juan Carlos I Sofia José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Miguel Angel Moratinos Mariano Rajoy	king queen president of the government minister of foreign affairs leader of the opposition
Estonie (Estonia)		Arnold Rüütel	president of the Republic
Équateur (Ecuador)		Lucio Gutierrez Ximena Bohorquez Patricio Zuquilanda	president of the Republic "first lady" minister of foreign affairs
États-Unis d'Amérique| United States		George W. Bush Laura Bush Condoleezza Rice George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton	president "first lady" secretary of state former president former president

F

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Finlande (Finland)		Matti Vanhanen	prime minister
France		Jacques Chirac Bernadette Chirac	president of the Republic "first lady"

G

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Ghana		John Kufuor	president of the Republic
Grèce (Greece)		Karolos Papoulias	president of the Republic
Guatemala		Oscar Berger Wendy de Berger Jorge Briz Abularach Rigoberta Menchu	president of the Republic "first lady" minister of foreign affairs Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1992
Guinée (Guinea)		Sidibé Fatoumata Kaba	minister of foreign affairs
Guinée équatoriale (Equatorial Guinea)		Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	president of the Republic

H

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Haiti		Gérard Latortue	prime minister
Honduras		Ricardo Maduro	president of the Republic
Hongrie (Hungary)		Ferenc Madl Dalma Madl Ferenc Gyurcsany Viktor Orbán Katalin Szili	president of the Republic "first lady" prime minister former prime minister president of parliament

I

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Inde (India)		Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Vice President of India
Indonésie (Indonesia)		Maftuh Basyuni Freddy Numberi Alwi Shihab	minister of religious affairs minister of fisheries and maritime affairs minister for people's welfare
Iran		Mohammad Khatami	President of Iran
Irlande (Ireland)		Mary McAleese Bertie Ahern Mary Harney	President of Ireland Prime minister of Ireland Deputy prime minister
Israel		Moshe Katsav Silvan Shalom	President of Israel deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs
Italie (Italy)		Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Franca Ciampi Silvio Berlusconi	President of Italy "first lady" Prime minister of Italy

J

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Japon (Japan)		Yoriko Kawaguchi	advisor to the prime minister
Jordanie (Jordan)		Abdullah II Queen Rania	king queen

K

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Kenya		Chirau Ali Makwere	minister of foreign affairs
Koweït (Kuwait)		Jaber Al-Abdallah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	member of the royal family

L

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Lesotho		Letsie III Monyane Moleleki	king minister of foreign affairs
Lettonie (Latvia)		Vaira Vike-Freiberga	president of the Republic
Liban (Lebanon)		Émile Lahoud Omar Karamé Issam Farès Nabih Berri	president of the Republic prime minister deputy prime minister president of parliament
Liechtenstein		Hans-Adam II Princess Marie Prince Nikolaus	prince regnant princess prince
Lituanie (Lithuania)		Valdas Adamkus	president of the Republic
Luxembourg		Henri Maria Teresa Jean-Claude Juncker	grand duke grand duchess prime minister

M

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Macédoine (Republic of Macedonia)		Branko Crvenkovski	president
Madagascar		Marc Ravalomanana	president
Maroc (Morocco)		Moulay Rachid	prince and brother of king Mohammed VI
Maurice (Mauritius)		Paul Bérenger	prime minister
Mexique (Mexico)		Vicente Fox Marta Sahagún de Fox	president of the Republic "first lady"
Monaco		Patrick Leclercq	minister of state

N

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Nicaragua		Enrique Bolanos Norman José Caldera Cardenal Armando Luna Jose Cuadra	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs ambassador to the Holy See ambassador to Italy
Nigeria		Olusegun Obasanjo	president
Norvège (Norway)		Queen Sonja Kjell Magne Bondevik	queen prime minister
Nouvelle-Zélande (New Zealand)		Silvia Cartwright	governor-general

O

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Ouganda (Uganda)		Gilbert Bukenya	vice-president of the Republic

P

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Pakistan		Mohammed Ijaz-ul Haq	minister of religious affairs
Palestinienne (Palestine)		Ahmed Qurei	prime minister
Panama		Martin Torrijos Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos	president "first lady"
Paraguay		Luis Castiglioni Leila Rachid de Cowles	vice-president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs
Pays-Bas (Netherlands)		Jan Peter Balkenende	prime minister
Pérou (Peru)		Manuel Rodriguez Cuadros Eofardo Salhuana Antero Flores Araoz	minister of foreign affairs minister of lJustice president of Congress
Philippines		Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	president of the Republic
Pologne (Poland)		Aleksander Kwasniewski Jolanta Kwasniewski Lech Walesa Danuta Wałęsa Marek Belka Adam Daniel Rotfeld Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz Longin Pastusiak Hanna Suchocka Tadeusz Mazowiecki	president of the Republic "first lady" former president of the Republic former "first lady" prime minister minister of foreign affairs marshal of the Sejim marshal of the Senate ambassador to the Holy See former prime minister
Portugal		Jorge Sampaio Maria Jose Ritta Diogo Freitas do Amaral Ramalho Eanes	president of the Republic "first lady" minister of foreign affairs former president of the Republic

Q

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Qatar		Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani	emir
Québec		Jean Charest Gérald Tremblay Louise Harel Mario Dumont	premier mayor of Montréal representative of the Parti Québécois<b du Québec]]

R

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Roumanie (Romania)		Traian Basescu Calin Popescu-Tariceanu Michael of Romania Emil Constantinescu Ion Iliescu	president of the Republic prime minister former king former president of the Republic former president of the Republic
Royaume-Uni (United Kingdom)		Prince Charles Tony Blair Cherie Blair	prince of Wales prime minister spouse of prime minister
Russie (Russia)		Mikhail Fradkov	prime minister
Rwanda		Charles Murigande	minister of foreign affairs

S

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Salvador (El Salvador)		Francisco Laínez Ana Ligia de Saca Rene Figueroa Roberto Siman María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila	minister of foreign affairs "first lady" minister of the Interior former ambassador to the Holy See former minister of foreign affairs
Senegal		Abdoulaye Wade	president of the Republic
Serbie-et-Monténégro (Serbia and Montenegro)		Svetozar Marovic Vuk Draskovic Boris Tadic Filip Vujanovic Ibrahim Rugova Bajram Kosumi Nexhat Daci	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs president of Serbia president of Montenegro president of Kosovo prime minister of Kosovo president of parlement of Kosovo
Slovaquie (Slovakia)		Ivan Gašparovič Pavol Hrusovsky Eduard Kukan	president of the Republic president of Parlement minister of foreign affairs
Slovénie (Slovenia)		Janez Drnovšek Janez Janša	president of the Republic prime minister
Sri Lanka		Mahinda Rajapakse Milroy Fernando	prime minister minister of Christian affairs
Suède (Sweden)		Charles XVI Gustav Queen Silvia Göran Persson	king queen prime minister
Suisse (Switzerland)		Samuel Schmid	president of the Confederation
Syrie (Syria)		Bashar al-Assad Asma al-Assad	president of the Republic "first lady"

T

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Taïwan (Republic of China)		Chen Shui-bian Chen Tang-san	president minister of foreign affairs
Tanzanie (Tanzania)		George Kahama	Minister for Cooperative Development
Tchèque (Czech Republic)		Vaclav Klaus Cyril Svoboda	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs
Thaïlande (Thailand)		Surakiart Sathirathai	deputy prime minister
Tunisie (Tunisia)		Mohamed Ghannouchi	prime minister
Turquie (Turkey)		Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Mehmet Aydin	prime minister minister of state

U

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Ukraine		Viktor Yushchenko Kateryna Yushchenko	president "first lady"
Uruguay		Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez	"first lady"

V

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Venezuela		Ali Rodriguez Jorge Giordanni Rodrigo Chavez Roy Chaderton	minister of foreign affairs ministre de Planification ambassador to Italy ambassador to France

Z

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Zimbabwe		Robert Mugabe	president

International organizations

Organization	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Council of Europe		Terry Davis Adam Daniel Rotfeld Rene van der Linden Giovanni di Stasi	secretary-general président du Comité des ministres président de l'Assemblée parlementaire président du Congrès des pouvoirs locaux et régionaux
Arab League		Amr Moussa	secretary-general
United Nations		Kofi Annan	secretary-general
European Union		José Manuel Durão Barroso Jean-Claude Juncker Josep Borrell Danuta Hübner Franco Frattini Benita Ferrero-Waldner	president of the European Commission president of the European Parliament president of the European Parliament commissioner in charge of Regional Policy commissioner in charge of Justice commissioner in charge of external relations
NATO		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	secretary-general

Religious leaders

• Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens
• Anastasios , Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës, and all Albania
• Shear-Yishuv Cohen , Chief Rabbi of Haifa
• Riccardo Di Segni , Chief Rabbi of Rome
• Dr Alison Eliot, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
• KG Hammar , Archbishop of Uppsala, Head of the Church of Sweden
• Jovan, Metropolitan of Zagreb-Ljubljana and All-Italy of the Serbian Orthodox Church
• Karekine II, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church
• Kirill, Metropolitan of Smolensk-Kaliningrad, head of the Department of Interchurch relations of the Russian Orthodox Church
• Lavrentije, Bishop of Šabac and Valjevo of the Serbian Orthodox Church
• Leo, Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland
• Mesrob II , Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul and Turkey
• Jukka Paarma, Archbishop of Turku, Head of the Church of Finland
• Seraphim, Bishop of Ottawa, of The Orthodox Church in America
• Abune Paulos , Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
• Oded Viener , representing the Chief Rabbis of Israel
• Finn Wagle , Bishop of Nidaros and primus of the Norwegian Lutheran State Church (part of Norwegian official delegation)
• Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion

Unofficial delegations

A selection of dignataries not part of their official national delegations:

Brazil

Individually invited (by the Holy See):

• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil
• Itamar Franco, Brazilian Ambassador to Italy; former President of Brazil
• Father Odilo Scherer, secretary-general of the CNBB (Assembly of the Brazilian Bishops)

Presidential delegation (invited by the President, but did not seat for Mass of Requiem):

• José Sarney, Brazilian senator; former President of Brazil and former president of the Brazilian Senate
• Henry Sobel , leading Rabbi of the Brazilian Jewish community
• Sheik Armando Hussein Saleh, of the "Brazilian Mosque" (representing the Muslims of Brazil)
• Rolf Schunemann, of the Brazilian Lutheran Church (representing the Protestants of Brazil)
• Areonilthes Conceição Chagas, the most prestigious Ialorixá in the country (representing the Afro-Brazilian faiths)
• Father João Áviz, Archbishop of Brasília
• Father José Ernanne, representing the Brazilian clergy

United States

Members of Congress and other dignitaries (not part of the official delegation, ie. no VIP treatment):

• John Kerry, Democratic senator from Massachusetts
• Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader, Republican, from Tennessee
• Ted Kennedy, Democratic senator from Massachusetts
• White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card
• New York Governor George Pataki
• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

External links

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• Religious Delegations in attendance