Where Trump, other leaders sat at Pope Francis' funeral

Trumps get astatine Pope Francis' ceremonial

President Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump get astatine Pope Francis' funeral 04:39

Around 200,000 mourners flooded the streets of Rome to bid farewell to Pope Francis, often referred to arsenic the "People's Pope," astatine his ceremonial successful St. Peter's Square connected Saturday morning. Dignitaries, heads of authorities and reigning monarchs were among those with reserved seats astatine the ceremonial Mass, including President Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump.

With delegations from astir 130 countries astatine the ceremony, the seating illustration had to beryllium planned accordingly. Here's however it worked:

How Pope Francis' ceremonial seating illustration was arranged

Argentina's President Javier Milei (R) and different leaders look connected arsenic pallbearers hole to assistance the coffin during precocious Pope Francis' ceremonial ceremonial astatine St Peter's Square astatine the Vatican connected April 26, 2025.  Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP

The authoritative delegations were seated successful a peculiar conception to the close of the altar extracurricular of St. Peter's Basilica.

Francis made history arsenic the archetypal pontiff from South America. So it was lone fitting that Argentina - Francis' autochthonal state - was represented successful the beforehand enactment with Argentine President Javier Milei. Milei sat adjacent to his sister, Karina, who serves arsenic wide caput of the presidency. Next to them was Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who was seated up beforehand due to the fact that the pope is the bishop of Rome. 

The seating arrangements pursuing Italy were past based connected the French diplomatic alphabetical order. So, for example, the United States wouldn't beryllium "U," it would beryllium "E" aft the French translation "États-Unis." According to Reuters, reigning monarchs were fixed precedence implicit different heads of state.

Where was Donald Trump sitting astatine the pope's funeral?

President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Estonian President Alar Karis, King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain be the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square connected April 26, 2025 successful Vatican City, Vatican. Getty Images

Mr. Trump and the archetypal woman walked into St. Peter's Square and were directed to their seats astir 4 a.m. ET, up of the service. The brace was seated adjacent to Estonian President Alar Karis, King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain. Across the aisle, to their right, was Finland's President Alexander Stubb, with whom helium was seen speaking astatine the commencement of the ceremony. 

Here were immoderate different notable leaders successful attendance:

• Britain's Prince William 
• U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer
• French President Emmanuel Macron 
• Former U.S President Joe Biden
• Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 
• Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
• United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres
• EU Commission main Ursula von der Leyen
• European Council President Antonio Costa
• Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
• Honduras' President Xiomara Castro
• Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
• India's president Droupadi Murmu
• President of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadera
• President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi
• President of Cape Verde, Jose Maria Neves

Haley Ott contributed to this report.

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