Where Trump, other leaders sat at Pope Francis' funeral

Around 200,000 mourners flooded the streets of Rome to bid farewell to Pope Francis, wide known 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

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 authorities successful the order.

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

Mr. Trump and the archetypal woman walked into St. Peter's Square and were directed to their beforehand enactment seats astir 4 a.m. ET, up of the service. They were 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.

As galore pointed retired online, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy was besides seated successful the beforehand enactment - an aisle implicit from Mr. Trump. Photos from the ceremonial amusement Zelenskyy was 10 seats distant from Mr. Trump. Interactions betwixt the brace person been intimately watched ever since their heated Oval Office exchange over the warfare successful Ukraine successful precocious February.

The White House revealed connected Monday that Mr. Trump and Zelenskyy had a backstage gathering successful the Vatican earlier they took their seats astatine the ceremonial service. The Trump medication described it arsenic a "very productive discussion." Zelenskyy agreed it was a "good meeting" and said successful a statement connected societal media that they "discussed a lot."

Former President Joe Biden and erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden besides went to Rome to wage their respects to Francis. He was sitting 4 rows down Mr. Trump, the BBC reports.

Here were immoderate different notable leaders successful attendance:

Britain's Prince William U.K. Prime Minister Keir StarmerFrench President Emmanuel MacronGermany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf ScholzItalian Prime Minister Giorgia MeloniUnited Nations Secretary General Antonio GuterresEU Commission main Ursula von der LeyenEuropean Council President Antonio CostaBrazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da SilvaHonduras' President Xiomara CastroPhilippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.India's president Droupadi MurmuPresident of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange TouaderaPresident of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix TshisekediPresident of Cape Verde, Jose Maria Neves

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