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First Lady Laura Bush, President George W. Bush, Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered one of the largest United States delegations to any memorial service outside its borders.

This is a list of dignitaries at the funeral of Pope John Paul II. After the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2, 2005 in Vatican City, and before official invitations were sent by the College of Cardinals, almost 200 countries expressed interest in sending representatives to the funeral of Pope John Paul II. The funeral took place on April 8, 2005, and was the largest gathering of statesmen in history. Some of the dignitaries later attended the installation of Pope Benedict XVI on April 24, 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, and the delegation from Italy. The limit did not exclude other people of any nationality from attaining individual invitations, unrelated to the individual's country's delegation: for example, the attendance of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, had no connection with the Brazilian delegation. In addition to a country's official delegation, 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, and they all 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.

List of official delegations in seating order

At the funeral, each country's dignitaries were seated alphabetically according to the French spelling of their country's name. That order is followed below.

A

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Titles
Afghanistan	Image:Afghanistan flag large.png	Hamid Karzai	President
South Africa (Afrique du sud)		Jacob Zuma Nelson Mandela	deputy president former president
Albania (Albanie)	Image:Albania flag large.png	Alfred Moisiu	President of the Republic
		Fatos Nano	Prime Minister
		Rexhep Meidani	Former President of the Republic
		Sali Berisha	Former President of the Republic
Algeria (Algérie)	Image:Algeria flag large.png	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	President of the Republic
Germany (Allemagne)	Image:Germany flag large.png	Horst Köhler Gerhard Schröder Wolfgang Thierse Edmund Stoiber	president chancellor president of the Parliament prime minister of Bavaria
Andorra (Andorre)	Image:Andorra flag large.png	Joan Enric Vives Sicília	Co-Prince
		Marc Forné	Head of the Government
Angola	Image:Angola flag large.png	José Eduardo dos Santos	President of the Republic
Argentina (Argentine)	Image:Argentina flag large.png	Daniel Scioli	Vice-President of the Republic
		Rafael Bielsa	Minister of Foreign Affairs
		Carlos Saúl Menem	Former President
		Eduardo Duhalde	Former President
Armenia (Arménie)		Andranik Markaryan	Prime Minister
Australia (Australie)	Image:Australia flag large.png	Michael Jeffery	Governor-General
		Marlena Jeffery	Spouse of Governor-General
Austria (Autriche)		Heinz Fischer	Federal President
		Margit Fischer	First Lady
		Wolfgang Schüssel	Federal Chancellor
		Hubert Gorbach	Vice-chancellor
		Andreas Khol	Former President of the National Council

B

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Bangladesh		Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf	Food and Disaster Management Minister
Belgium (Belgique)		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
Burma (Birmanie)		Khin Maung Aye Charles Bo	Ambassador Archbishop of Rangoon
Bolivia		Carlos Mesa Valentín Abecia	President of the Republic Ambassador
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Image:Bosnia flag large.png	Borislav Paravac Šefik Džaferović Bariša Čolak	President of the Presidency President of Parliament Deputy Prime Minister
Brésil (Brazil)	Image:Brazil flag large.png	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Marisa Letícia da Silva Renan Calheiros Severino Cavalcante Nelson Jobim	President of the Republic First Lady President of Senate President of House of Representatives President of Supreme Court
Bulgaria (Bulgarie)		Georgi Parvanov	President of the Republic

C

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Canada		Paul Martin Sheila Martin Stephen Harper Phil Fontaine	Prime Minister Wife of the Prime Minister leader of the opposition Head of the Assembly of First Nations
Chile (Chili)	Image:Chile flag large.png	Ignacio Walker Sergio Romero José Antonio Viera Gallo Gabriel Ascencio Pablo Longueira	Minister of Foreign Affairs President of the Senate Socialist senator President of the Chamber of Deputies UDI deputy
China, Republic of - (Taiwan), République de (Chine, République de)		Chen Shui-bian Chen Tang-san	president minister of foreign affairs
Colombie (Colombia)		Francisco Santos María 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
South Korea (Corée du Sud)		Lee Hai-chan	prime minister
Costa Rica	Image:Costa rica flag large.png	Abel Pacheco Roberto Tovar Faja	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs
Croatia (Croatie)		Stipe Mesić Ivo Sanader	president of the Republic prime minister
Cuba	Image:Cuba flag large.png	Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Caridad Diego Raúl Roa Kourí	president of the National Assembly chef of religious affairs of the Communist Party of Cuba ambassador to the Holy See

D

E

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Egypt (Égypte)	Image:Egypt flag large.png	Farouk Hosni	minister of Culture
United Arab Emirates (Émirats arabes unis)		Abdullah ibn Zayed Al Nahayan	minister of Information
Spain (Espagne)		Juan Carlos I Sofía José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Miguel Ángel Moratinos Mariano Rajoy	king queen president of the government minister of foreign affairs leader of the opposition
Estonia (Estonie)	Image:Estonia flag large.png	Arnold Rüütel	president of the Republic
Ecuador (Équateur)	Image:Ecuador flag large.png	Lucio Gutiérrez Ximena Bohórquez Patricio Zuquilanda	president of the Republic "first lady" minister of foreign affairs
United States (États-Unis d'Amérique)	Image:Us flag large.png	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 (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Finland (Finlande)		Matti Vanhanen	prime minister
France		Jacques Chirac Bernadette Chirac	president of the Republic "first lady"

G

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Ghana		John Kufuor	president of the Republic
Greece (Grèce)		Karolos Papoulias	president of the Republic
Guatemala		Óscar Berger Wendy de Berger Jorge Briz Abularach Rigoberta Menchú	president of the Republic "first lady" minister of foreign affairs Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1992
Guinea (Guinée)	Image:Guinea flag large.png	Sidibé Fatoumata Kaba	minister of foreign affairs
Equatorial Guinea (Guinée équatoriale)		Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	president of the Republic

H

I

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
India (Inde)		Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Vice President of India
Indonesia (Indonésie)		Maftuh Basyuni Freddy Numberi Alwi Shihab	minister of religious affairs minister of fisheries and maritime affairs minister for people's welfare
Iran	Image:Iran flag large.png	Mohammad Khatami	President of Iran
Ireland (Irlande)	Image:Ireland flag large.png	Mary McAleese Bertie Ahern Mary Harney	Uachtarán na hÉireann (President) Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Tánaiste (Deputy-Prime Minister)
Israel (Israël)	Image:Israel flag large.png	Moshe Katsav Silvan Shalom	President of Israel deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs
Italy (Italie)	Image:Italy flag large.png	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Franca Ciampi Silvio Berlusconi	President of the Italian Republic "first lady" Prime minister of Italy

J

K

L

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Lesotho	Image:Lesotho flag large.png	Letsie III Monyane Moleleki	king minister of foreign affairs
Latvia (Lettonie)	Image:Latvia flag large.png	Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga	president of the Republic
Lebanon (Liban)		Emile Lahoud Omar Karami Issam Fares Nabih Berri	president of the Republic prime minister deputy prime minister speaker of parliament
Liechtenstein		Hans-Adam II Princess Marie Prince Nikolaus	prince regnant princess prince
Lithuania (Lituanie)	Image:Lithuania flag large.png	Valdas Adamkus	president of the Republic
Luxembourg	Image:Luxembourg flag large.png	Henri Maria Teresa Jean-Claude Juncker	grand duke grand duchess prime minister

M

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Macedonia (Macédoine)	Image:Macedonia flag large.png	Branko Crvenkovski	president
Madagascar	Image:Madagascar flag large.png	Marc Ravalomanana	president
Malta		Eddie Fenech Adami	president
Morocco (Maroc )	Image:Morocco flag large.png	Prince Moulay Rachid	prince and brother of king Muhammad VI
Mauritius (Maurice)		Paul Bérenger	prime minister
Mexico (Mexique)		Vicente Fox Marta Sahagún de Fox	President of Mexico First lady of Mexico
Monaco		Patrick Leclercq	minister of state

N

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Nicaragua	Image:Nicaragua flag large.png	Enrique Bolaños Norman José Caldera Cardenal Armando Luna José Cuadra	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs ambassador to the Holy See ambassador to Italy
Nigeria (Nigerie)	Image:Nigeria flag large.png	Olusegun Obasanjo	president
Norway (Norvège)		Queen Sonja Kjell Magne Bondevik	queen prime minister
New Zealand (Nouvelle-Zélande)		Dame Silvia Cartwright Peter Cartwright	governor-general Spouse of governor general

O

P

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Pakistan	Image:Pakistan flag large.png	Mohammad Ejaz-ul-Haq	minister of religious affairs
Palestinian Authority		Ahmed Qureia	prime minister
Panama		Martín Torrijos Vivian Fernández de Torrijos	president "first lady"
Paraguay	Image:Paraguay flag large.png	Luis Castiglioni Leila Rachid de Cowles	vice-president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs
Netherlands (Pays-Bas)		Jan Peter Balkenende	prime minister
Peru (Pérou)		Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros Eduardo Salhuana Antero Flores Araoz	minister of foreign affairs minister of Justice president of Congress
Philippines		Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Evangelina Lourdes Arroyo Thelmo Cunanan Georgina de Venecia Howard Dee	president of the Republic "first daughter" SSS chairman (former ambassador to Cambodia) wife of House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. former ambassador to the Holy See
Poland (Pologne)	Image:Poland flag large.png	Aleksander Kwaśniewski Jolanta Kwaśniewska Lech Wałęsa Danuta Wałęsa Marek Belka Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz Longin Pastusiak Hanna Suchocka Tadeusz Mazowiecki Wiesław Chrzanowski	president of the Republic "first lady" former president of the Republic former "first lady" prime minister marshal of the Sejm marshal of the Senate ambassador to the Holy See former prime minister former marshal of the Sejm
Portugal		Jorge Sampaio Maria Jose Ritta Diogo Freitas do Amaral António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes	president of the Republic "first lady" minister of foreign affairs former president of the Republic
Puerto Rico	Image:Puerto rico flag large.png	Aníbal Acevedo Vilá Luisa Gándara	Governor of Puerto Rico "First Lady"

Q

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Qatar		Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani	emir

R

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Romania (Roumanie)		Traian Băsescu Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu 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
United Kingdom (Royaume-Uni)	Image:Uk flag large.png	Prince Charles Tony Blair Cherie Blair Michael Howard Charles Kennedy	prince of Wales prime minister spouse of prime minister opposition leader Lib Dem leader
Russia (Russie)		Mikhail Fradkov	prime minister
Rwanda		Charles Murigande	minister of foreign affairs

S

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
El Salvador (Salvador)	Image:El salvador flag large.png	Francisco Laínez Ana Ligia de Saca René Figueroa Roberto Simán 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
Serbia and Montenegro (Serbie-et-Monténégro)	Image:Yugoslavia flag large.png	Svetozar Marović Vuk Drašković Boris Tadić Filip Vujanović 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 parliament of Kosovo
Singapore	Image:Singapore flag large.png	Shanmugam Jayakumar Walter Woon Alexander Lim	deputy prime minister, minister of Law ambassador to the Holy See first secretary
Slovakia (Slovaquie)		Ivan Gašparovič Pavol Hrušovský Eduard Kukan	president of the Republic president of Parliament minister of foreign affairs
Slovenia (Slovénie)	Image:Slovenia flag large.png	Janez Drnovšek Janez Janša	president of the Republic prime minister
Sri Lanka		Mahinda Rajapakse Milroy Fernando	prime minister minister of Christian affairs
Sweden (Suède)	Image:Sweden flag large.png	Charles XVI Gustav Queen Silvia Göran Persson	king queen prime minister
Switzerland (Suisse)	Image:Switzerland flag large.png	Samuel Schmid	president of the Confederation
Syria (Syrie)	Image:Syria flag large.png	Bashar al-Assad Asma al-Assad	president of the Republic "first lady"

T

Country (order per French spelling)	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Tanzania (Tanzanie)		George Kahama	Minister for Cooperative Development
Czech Republic (Tchèque)	Image:Czech flag.png	Václav Klaus Cyril Svoboda	president of the Republic minister of foreign affairs
Thailand (Thaïlande)	Image:Thailand flag large.png	Surakiart Sathirathai	deputy prime minister
Tunisia (Tunisie)		Mohamed Ghannouchi	prime minister
Turkey (Turquie)	Image:Turkey flag large.png	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Mehmet Aydin	prime minister minister of state

U

V

Country	Flag	Official delegation	Title
Venezuela		Alí Rodríguez Jorge Giordanni Rodrigo Chávez Roy Chaderton	minister of foreign affairs minister of planning 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 Council 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

Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is led by Bernard Cardinal Law of the United States, Archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica, for a memorial mass at the historic church. The Philippines has the largest Roman Catholic population in Asia.

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 dignitaries not seated in the section for official national delegations during the funeral:

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

Canada

All representing Québec

• Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of Montréal
• Louise Harel, Representative of the Parti Québécois
• Mario Dumont, Member of the National Assembly of Quebec

Philippines

• Leonida Vera, ambassador to the Holy See
• Hermilando Mandanas, Batangas congressman

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

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