The funeral of Pope Francis on 26 April 2025 was attended by representatives from 142 out of 193 UN member states, along with the Republic of China, Kosovo, Palestine and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, including heads of state and heads of government. Following Francis's death five days prior, many foreign leaders confirmed their forthcoming attendance at his Requiem Mass, some as early as on the day of his death. Several cardinal electors in the 2025 papal conclave, which elected Francis's successor Leo XIV, also attended the mass, as did representatives of Catholic dioceses, representatives of other Christian denominations, and leaders from other religions.
National representatives
Heads of state
Delegation state Person (accompanied by) Head of state position Bajram Begaj (with Armanda Begaj) President of Albania Joan Enric Vives i Sicília Co-Princes of Andorra Emmanuel Macron (with Brigitte Macron) João Lourenço (with Ana Dias Lourenço) President of Angola Javier Milei President of Argentina Vahagn Khachaturyan President of Armenia Alexander Van der Bellen (with Doris Schmidauer) President of Austria Philippe (with Queen Mathilde) King of the Belgians Željka Cvijanović Chairwoman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Bećirović Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (with Rosângela Lula da Silva) President of Brazil José Maria Neves (with Débora Katisa Carvalho) President of Cape Verde Faustin-Archange Touadéra President of the Central African Republic Zoran Milanović (with Sanja Musić Milanović) President of Croatia Nikos Christodoulides President of Cyprus Luis Abinader (with Raquel Arbaje) President of the Dominican Republic Félix Tshisekedi (with Denise Nyakéru Tshisekedi) President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Daniel Noboa President of Ecuador Alar Karis President of Estonia Alexander Stubb President of Finland Emmanuel Macron (with Brigitte Macron) President of France Brice Oligui Nguema (with Zita Nyangue Oligui) President of Gabon Mikheil Kavelashvili President of Georgia (disputed) Frank-Walter Steinmeier (with Elke Büdenbender) President of Germany Xiomara Castro President of Honduras Tamás Sulyok (with Zsuzsanna Nagy) President of Hungary Halla Tómasdóttir President of Iceland Droupadi Murmu President of India Michael D. Higgins (with Sabina Higgins) President of Ireland Sergio Mattarella (with Laura Mattarella) President of Italy Abdullah II (with Rania) King of Jordan William Ruto President of Kenya Vjosa Osmani (with Prindon Sadriu) President of Kosovo Edgars Rinkēvičs President of Latvia Joseph Aoun (with Nehmat Aoun) President of Lebanon Letsie III King of Lesotho Gitanas Nausėda (with Diana Nausėdienė) President of Lithuania Henri (with Maria Teresa) Grand Duke of Luxembourg Andry Rajoelina (with Mialy Rajoelina) President of Madagascar Miriam Spiteri Debono (with Anthony Spiteri Debono) President of Malta Maia Sandu President of Moldova Albert II (with Charlene) Prince of Monaco Jakov Milatović (with Milena Milatović) President of Montenegro Daniel Chapo (with Gueta Chapo) President of Mozambique Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova President of North Macedonia Bongbong Marcos (with Liza Araneta Marcos) President of the Philippines Andrzej Duda (with Agata Kornhauser-Duda) President of Poland Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa President of Portugal Ilie Bolojan Acting President of Romania Denise Bronzetti Captains Regent of San Marino Italo Righi Wavel Ramkalawan (with Linda Ramkalawan) President of the Seychelles Julius Maada Bio President of Sierra Leone Peter Pellegrini President of Slovakia Nataša Pirc Musar (with Aleš Musar) President of Slovenia John T. Dunlap Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Felipe VI (with Letizia) King of Spain Carl XVI Gustaf (with Silvia) King of Sweden Karin Keller-Sutter (with Morton Keller) President of Switzerland José Ramos-Horta President of Timor-Leste Faure Gnassingbé President of Togo Volodymyr Zelenskyy (with Olena Zelenska) President of Ukraine Donald Trump (with Melania Trump) President of the United States
Representatives of heads of state
Delegation state Person (accompanied by) Position Representative of Ahmed Attaf Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune Sam Mostyn (with Simeon Beckett) Governor-General of Australia Charles III Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments of Bahrain Igor Sergeenko Speaker of the House of Representatives of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Prosper Bazombanza (with Marie Ndenganyo) Vice-President of Burundi Évariste Ndayishimiye Froyla Tzalam (with Daniel Mendez) Governor-General of Belize Charles III Paul Atanga Nji Minister of Territorial Administration of Cameroon Paul Biya Mary Simon (with Whit Fraser) Governor General of Canada Charles III Minister of Commerce and Industry of Chad Mahamat Déby Chen Chien-jen (with Lo Feng-ping) Former Vice President of the Republic of China (2016–2020) Lai Ching-te Verónica Alcocer First Lady of Colombia Gustavo Petro Salvador Valdés Mesa Vice President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Mary Queen consort of Denmark Frederik X Osama al-Azhari Minister of Religious Endowment of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Félix Ulloa (with Lilian Alvarengo de Ulloa) Vice President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele Constancia Mangue First Lady of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Thuli Dladla Deputy Prime Minister of Eswatini Mswati III Henry Gomez Special Adviser to the President of the Gambia Adama Barrow Liwy Grazioso Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala Bernardo Arévalo Joko Widodo Former President of Indonesia (2014–2024) Prabowo Subianto Nechirvan Barzani President of Kurdistan Region Abdul Latif Rashid High Representative of the Head of State of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara Alois (with Sophie) Hereditary Prince and Regent of Liechtenstein Hans-Adam II Rosa Icela Rodríguez Secretary of the Interior of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum Aziz Akhannouch Prime Minister of Morocco Mohammed VI Selma Ashipala-Musavyi Minister of International Relations and Trade of Namibia Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah Godswill Akpabio President of the Senate of Nigeria Bola Tinubu Haakon (with Mette-Marit) Crown Prince of Norway Harald V Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama José Raúl Mulino Raúl Latorre President of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay Santiago Peña Elmer Schialer Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru Dina Boluarte Olga Lyubimova Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Putin Adel Al-Jubeir Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Member, and Climate Envoy of Saudi Arabia Salman Jean Baptiste Tine Minister of Interior and Public Security of Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye Yu In-chon Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea Han Duck-soo Monday Semaya Kumba Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit Hind Kabawat Minister of Social and Labour Affairs of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa Philip Mpango Vice-President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia Kais Saied Anita Among Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda Yoweri Museveni Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan William Prince of Wales Charles III Mario Lubetkin Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay Yamandú Orsi Yván Gil Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Mulambo Haimbe Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema Constantino Chiwenga First Vice-President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa
Heads of government Delegation state Person (accompanied by) Head of government position Xavier Espot Zamora Prime Minister of Andorra Christian Stocker Chancellor of Austria Muhammad Yunus Chief Adviser of Bangladesh Bart De Wever Prime Minister of Belgium Borjana Krišto Chair of Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Rosen Zhelyazkov Prime Minister of Bulgaria Andrej Plenković (with Ana Maslać Plenković) Prime Minister of Croatia Petr Fiala (with Jana Fialová) Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Olaf Scholz Chancellor of Germany Kyriakos Mitsotakis (with Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis) Prime Minister of Greece Viktor Orbán (with Anikó Lévai) Prime Minister of Hungary Micheál Martin Taoiseach of Ireland Giorgia Meloni Prime Minister of Italy Albin Kurti (with Rita Augestad Knudsen) Prime Minister of Kosovo Luc Frieden (with Marjolijne Droogleever Fortuyn) Prime Minister of Luxembourg Robert Abela (with Lydia Abela) Prime Minister of Malta Dick Schoof Prime Minister of the Netherlands Christopher Luxon Prime Minister of New Zealand Mohammad Mustafa Prime Minister of Palestine Luís Montenegro Prime Minister of Portugal Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani Prime Minister of Qatar Marcel Ciolacu Prime Minister of Romania Đuro Macut Prime Minister of Serbia Robert Golob (with Tina Gaber) Prime Minister of Slovenia Ulf Kristersson Prime Minister of Sweden Keir Starmer (with Victoria Starmer) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Ambassadors
Unless otherwise stated, all listed ambassadors are accredited to the Holy See.
Delegation state Person (accompanied by) Status Carles Álvarez Marfany Ambassador Boris Sahakyan Ambassador Keith Pitt Ambassador-designate İlqar Muxtarov Ambassador Joseph Curry (with Terez Curry) Ambassador Essam bin Abdulaziz Al Jassim Ambassador to France and non-resident Ambassador to the Holy See Yury Ambrazevich Ambassador Kirill Petrovsky Chargé d'affaires to Italy Ambassador Jaime Briceño Ambassador Teresa Susana Subieta Ambassador Ambassador Alberto Ospina Carreño Ambassador Federico Zamora Ambassador Pavel Svoboda Ambassador Ambassador Jorge Edmundo Uribe Pérez Ambassador Omar Ghobash Ambassador Julieta Anabella Machuca Ambassador Ambassador Lilas Desquiron Ambassador to UNESCO Gandy Thomas Ambassador-designate to Italy Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen Ambassador Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari Ambassador Rahman Farhan Abdullah Alaameri Ambassador Frances Collins Ambassador Yaron Sideman Ambassador Vhangha Patrice Koffi Ambassador Richard Brown Ambassador Nasser Alqahtani Ambassador Ambassador to Italy and non-resident Ambassador to the Holy See Joseph Mpinganjira Ambassador Frank Zammit Ambassador Alberto Barranco Chavarría Ambassador Davaasuren Gerelmaa Ambassador Rajae Naji Mekkaoui Ambassador Hmway Hmway Khyne (with Hla Moe) Ambassador Martin Andjaba Ambassador to Germany and non-resident Ambassador to the Holy See Annemieke Ruigrok Ambassador Maurizio Gelli (with Farah Gutiérrez) Ambassador to Spain Mónica Robelo Ambassador to Italy Nazar bin Al Julanda bin Majid Al Said Ambassador Joseph Varo Ambassador to Belgium Romina Taboada Tonina Ambassador María José Argaña Mateu Ambassador to Italy Ambassador to Germany and non-resident Ambassador to the Holy See Asma Naji Al-Amri Ambassador Wafic Saïd Ambassador Ambassador Prince Faisal bin Sattam Al Saud Ambassador to Italy Juraj Priputen Ambassador Ambassador Salah Mohamed Ishag Rahama Chargé d'affaires Mohamed Elmouataz Jafar Eltayeb Osman Chargé d'affaires to Italy Per Holmström Ambassador Ambassador Omar Ghobash Ambassador Ambassador Farrouk Tursunov Ambassador Bernard Leclerc Ambassador Dương Hải Hưng Ambassador
Other officials
Argentina Karina Milei, General Secretary of the Presidency of the Argentine Nation Guillermo Francos, Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina Gerardo Werthein, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Security of Argentina Sandra Pettovello, Minister of Human Capital of Argentina Manuel Adorni, Spokesperson and Communications Officer of the Government of Argentina
Australia Don Farrell, Special Minister of State and Minister for Trade and Tourism of Australia