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Is there any shame for a patriarch to be sitting next to a non-Christian if that non-Christian is a guest in the country? 

We must first learn from the example of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Did the self-righteous Pharisees, lawyers, and scribes accuse our Lord as being "a friend of sinners and tax collectors?" He touched lepers, raised the dead, healed on the Sabbath, conversed with women of bad reputations and adulteresses, and invited Himself to the home of Zacchaeus, one of the most hated men by the religious community. The Lord Jesus Christ loves us all. We pray in the Second Absolution of the Prime Hour: "O God who causes the light to burst forth, who lets His sun shine upon the righteous and the wicked ...," and in the Conclusion of Every Hour, we pray: "Have mercy on us, O God, ... Christ our God, the good, the long suffering, the abundant in mercy, and the great in compassion, who loves the righteous and has mercy on the sinners of whom I am chief, who does not wish the death of the sinner but rather that he returns and lives, who calls all to salvation for the promise of good things to come ..." Thus, if the Lord Jesus Christ Himself gave us these examples throughout His ministry and throughout the Holy Scripture, and the Church Fathers weaved the Lord's commandment of "love" for all in many of our prayers, whether a patriarch or even the most simple Christian would not think it shameful to sit next to someone who is not Christian, but rather the opposite. As Christians, we must strive to live as Christ's disciples. "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35).