Hypothetical List of longest-living Cardinals

This article lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals (after 1800),, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Cardinal was Corrado Bafile, of Italy who lived to ages of 101 years, 214 days.

if every Cardinal born after 1 January 1922 who died beginning 1 January 1990 is still alive today. also including Cardinals who died prior to 1 January 1890.

List

Rank	Cardinal	Country	Born	Died	Age	Actual date date and age
1	Umberto Betti	Italy	1922.03.07	Alive	102 years, 113 days	2009.04.01 87 years, 25 days
2	Virgilio Noè	Italy	1922.03.30	Alive	102 years, 90 days	2011.07.24 89 years, 116 days
3	Dino Monduzzi	Italy	1922.04.02	Alive	102 years, 87 days	2006.10.13 84 years, 194 days
4	Georges Cottier OP	Switzerland	1922.04.25	Alive	102 years, 67 days	2016.03.31 93 years, 341 days
5	Bernardin Gantin	Benin	1922.05.08	Alive	102 years, 51 days	2008.05.13 86 years, 5 days
	Stephen Kim Sou-hwan	South Korea				2009.02.06 86 years, 284 days
7	Pio Lahghi	Italy	1922.05.21	Alive	102 years, 38 days	2009.01.10 86 years, 234 days
8	Alberto Bovone	Italy	1922.06.11	Alive	102 years, 17 days	1998.04.17 75 years, 310 days
9	Gilberto Agustoni	Italy	1922.07.26	Alive	101 years, 338 days	2017.01.22 94 years, 171 days
10	Lorenzo Antonetti	Italy	1922.03.31	Alive	101 years, 333 days	2016.03.31 90 years, 253 days
11	Thomas Winning	United States	1922.06.03	Alive	102 years, 25 days	2001.06.17 79 years, 14 days
12	Luis Aponte Martínez	Puerto Rico	1922.08.04	Alive	101 years, 329 days	2012.04.10 89 years, 250 days
13	Rosalio José Castillo Lara	Venezuela	1922.09.04	Alive	101 years, 298 days	2007.08.16 84 years, 342 days
14	Roger Etchegaray	France	1922.09.25	Alive	101 years, 277 days	2019.09.04 96 years, 344 days
1-15	Jorge da Costa	Portugal	1406	1508.09.18	101 years, 262 days to 102 years, 261 days
16	Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903.07.04	2005.02.03	101 years, 214 days
17	Jorge María Mejía	Argentina	1923.01.31	Alive	101 years, 149 days	2014.12.09 91 years, 312 days
17-18	Maurice Michael Otunga	Kenya	1923.01	Alive	101 years, 149 days to 101 years, 179 days	2003.09.06 80 years, 218 days to 80 years, 248 days
19	George Basil Hume	England	1923.03.02	Alive	101 years, 118 days	1999.06.17 76 years, 107 days
20	Albert Decourtray	France	1923.04.09	Alive	101 years, 80 days	1994.09.16 71 years, 160 days
21	Luigi Ciacchi	Italy	1765.08.16	1865.12.17	100 years, 123 days
22	Anthony Bevilacqua	United States	1923.06.17	Alive	101 years, 11 days	2012.01.31 88 years, 228 days
23	Gustaaf Joos	Belgium	1923.07.05	Alive	100 years, 359 days	2004.11.02 81 years, 120 days
24	Albert Vanhoye, SJ	France	1923.07.24	Alive	100 years, 340 days	2021.07.29 98 years, 5 days
25	Antonio Quarracino	Argentina	1923.08.08	Alive	100 years, 325 days	1998.02.28 74 years, 204 days
26	Henryk Gulbinowicz	Poland	1923.10.17	Alive	100 years, 255 days	2020.11.16 97 years, 30 days
27	Achille Silvestrini	Italy	1923.10.25	Alive	100 years, 247 days	2019.08.29 95 years, 308 days
28	Tomás Ó Fiaich	Northern Ireland	1923.11.03	Alive	100 years, 238 days	1990.05.08 66 years, 183 days
29	Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	1915.10.14	2016.05.26	100 years, 224 days
30	Paul Shan Kuo-hsi	South Korea	1923.12.02	Alive	100 years, 207 days	2012.08.22 88 years, 263 days
31	Pio Taofinu’u	Samoa	1923.12.08	Alive	100 years, 203 days	2006.01.19 82 years, 42 days
32	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Italy	1919.02.18	2019.09.03	100 years, 197 days
33	Edward Clancy	Australia	1923.12.13	Alive	100 years, 198 days	2014.08.03 90 years, 233 days
34	Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J.	Slovakia	1924.01.22	Alive	100 years, 158 days	2015.10.24 91 years, 275 days
35	Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy	India	1924.02.05	Alive	100 years, 144 days	2014.06.02 90 years, 117 days
36	Silvano Piovanelli	Italy	1924.02.21	Alive	100 years, 128 days	2016.07.09 92 years, 139 days
37	Andrzej Maria Deskur	Poland	1924.02.29	Alive	100 years, 120 days	2011.09.03 87 years, 187 days
38	Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	1924.03.11	Alive	100 years, 109 days	2022.08.08 98 years 150 days
39	Alexandre José María dos Santos, O.F.M.	Mozambique	1924.03.18	Alive	100 years, 102 days	2021.09.29 97 years, 195 days
40	Edward Cassidy	Australia	1924.07.05	Alive	99 years, 359 days	2021.04.10 96 years, 279 days
41	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	Brazil	1924.08.13	Alive	99 years, 351 days	2019.10.08 95 years, 56 days
42	Aloísio Lorscheider	Brazil	1924.10.08	Alive	99 years, 264 days
43	Giovanni Saldarini	Italy	1924.12.11	Alive	99 years, 200 days	2011.04.18 86 years, 128 days
44	Francesco Colasuonno	Italy	1925.01.02	Alive	99 years, 178 days	2003.05.31 78 years, 89 days
45	Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	1925.03.01	Alive	99 years, 119 days	Still living (current oldest living Cardinal)
46	John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung	Hong Kong	1925.03.26	Alive	99 years, 94 days	2002.09.23 77 years, 181 days
47	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914.07.20	2013.07.28	99 years, 8 days
48	Marco Cé	Italy	1925.07.08	Alive	98 years, 357 days	2014.05.12 88 years, 308 days
49	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	1920.05.15	2019.05.12	98 years, 362 days
50	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	Spain	1925.07.14	Alive	98 years, 350 days	2022.01.05 96 years, 175 days
51	Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1911.05.23	2010.04.30	98 years, 342 days
52	Armand Razafindratandra	India	1925.08.07	Alive	98 years, 326 days	2010.01.09 84 years, 155 days
53	Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo	Italy	1925.08.27	Alive	98 years, 306 days	2017.11.19 92 years, 84 days
54	Lucas Moreira Neves	Brazil	1925.09.16	Alive	98 years, 286 days	2002.09.08 76 years, 357 days
55	Galeazzo Marescotti	Italy	1627.10.01	1726.07.03	98 years, 275 days
56	Jean-Baptist de Belloy	France	1709.10.09	1808.06.10	98 years, 245 days
57	José Freire Falcão	Brazil	1925.10.23	Alive	98 years, 249 days	2021.09.26 95 years, 338 days
58	Giovanni Coppa	Italy	1925.11.09	Alive	98 years, 232 days	2016.05.15 90 years, 189 days
59	Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	1901.08.02	2000.03.12	98 years, 223 days
	Franz König	Austria	1905.08.03	2004.03.13
61	Prosper Grech, O.S.A.	Malta	1925.12.24	Alive	98 years, 187 days	2019.12.30 94 years, 6 days
62	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Spain	1926.01.01	Alive	98 years, 179 days	2019.07.21 93 years, 201 days
63	Johannes Joachim Degenhardt	Italy	1926.01.31	Alive	98 years, 149 days	2002.07.25 76 years, 175 days
64	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926.02.07	Alive	98 years, 142 days	Actual age
65	Luigi De Magistris	Italy	1926.02.23	Alive	98 years, 126 days	2022.02.16 95 years 358 days
66	Bernard Agré	Coté d'Ivoire	1926.03.02	Alive	98 years, 118 days	2016.06.09 88 years, 99 days
67	Desmond Connell	Ireland	1926.03.24	Alive	98 years, 96 days	2017.02.21<68>90 years, 334 days
68	Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916.08.01	2014.11.22	98 years, 113 days
69	Agostino Cacciavillan	Italy	1926.08.14	Alive	97 years, 319 days	2022.03.05 95 years, 204 days
70	Marian Jaworski	Poland	1926.08.21	Alive	97 years, 312 days	2020.09.05 94 years 13 days
71	Jean-Marie Lustiger	France	1926.09.17	Alive	97 years, 285 days	2006.08.05 87 years, 84 days
72	Ricardo María Carles Gordó	Spain	1926.09.24	Alive	97 years, 278 days	2013.12.17 87 years, 84 days
73	Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo	Mexico	1926.11.10	Alive	97 years, 231 days	1993.05.24 66 years, 195 days
74	William Wakefield Baum	United States	1926.11.21	Alive	97 years, 220 days	2015.07.23 88 years, 183 days
75	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926.12.15	Alive	97 years, 195 days	Actual age (living)
76	Jorge Medina	Chile	1926.12.23	Alive	97 years, 188 days	2021.10.03 94 years, 284 days
77	Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera	Mexico	1927.01.09	Alive	97 years, 171 days	1998.12.07 71 years, 322 days
78	Carlos Oviedo Cavada	Chile	1927.01.19	Alive	97 years, 161 days	2008.03.22 81 years, 73 days
79	Paolo Dezza, S.J.	Italy	1901.12.13	1999.12.17	98 years, 4 days
80	Carlo Maria Martini	Italy	1927.02.15	Alive	97 years, 134 days	2012.08.31 85 years, 198 days
81	Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	1910.08.23	2007.12.12	97 years, 111 days
82	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Spain	1927.03.31	Alive	97 years, 89 days	2021.08.10 94 years, 142 days
83	Luis Pascual Dri OFM Cap.	Argentina	1927.04.17	Alive	97 years, 72 days	Living
84	László Paskai	Hungary	1927.05.08	Alive	97 years, 51 days	2015.08.07 88 years, 91 days
85	Franciszek Macharski	Italy	1927.05.20	Alive	97 years, 39 days	2016.08.02 89 years, 74 days
86	Varkey Vithayathil	India	1927.05.29	Alive	97 years, 30 days	2011.04.01 83 years, 307 days
87	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M.	Italy	1896.07.14	1993.07.12	96 years, 363 days
88	Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	1909.09.04	2008.08.02	96 years, 331 days
89	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	1851.04.10	1948.02.16	96 years, 312 days
90	Edmund Casimir Szoka	United States	1927.09.14	Alive	96 years, 288 days	2014.08.20 86 years, 340 days
91	Kazimierz Świątek	Belgium	1914.10.21	2011.07.21	96 years, 273 days
92	Emmanuel III Delly	Iraq	1927.09.27	Alive	96 years, 275 days	2014.04.08 86 years, 193 days
93	José da Costa Nuñes	Portugal	1880.03.15	1976.11.29	96 years, 259 days
94	Angelo Sodano	Italy	1927.11.23	Alive	96 years, 218 days	2022.05.27 94 years, 205 days
94	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	1918.09.30	2006.04.29	96 years, 211 days
95	Domenico Bartolucci	Italy	1917.05.17	2013.11.11	96 years, 188 days
96	Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J.	Zambia	1911.04.01	2007.09.28	96 years, 180 days
97	Francesco Carafa di Trajetto	Italy	1722.04.29	1818.09.20	96 years, 144 days
98	Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1900.09.29	1997.01.28	96 years, 121 days
99	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928.02.28	Alive	96 years, 121 days
100	Joseph Louis Bernardin	United States	1928.04.02	Alive	96 years, 87 days	1996.11.14 68 years, 226 days

Chronological list of Oldest living members of the College of Cardinals

Name	Country	Born	Time as Oldest
John Henry Newman	United Kingdom England	21 February 1801–11 August 1890 89 years, 171 days	–11 August 1890 (aged 89) ??
Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	9 February 1806–11 July 1899 aged 93 years, 152 days	11 August 1890 (aged 84)–11 July 1899 (aged 93) 8 years, 334 days
Luigi Di Canossa		20 April 1809–2 March 1900 aged 90	11 July 1899 (aged 89)–2 March 1900 (aged 90) 244 days
Michelangelo Celesia		13 January 1814&ndssh;14 April 1904 aged 90 years, 92 days	12 March 1900 (aged 86)-14 April 1904 (aged 90) 314 days
François-Marie-Benjamin Richard	France	1 March 1819–27 January 1904 aged 88 years, 332 days	14 April 1904 (aged 84)–27 January 1908 (aged 88) 3 years, 288 days
Anton Josef Gruscha	Italy	3 November 1820–5 August 1911 aged 90 years, 275 daya	27 January 1908 (aged 87)–5 August 1911 (aged 90) 3 years, 190 days
Alfonso Capecelatro		5 February 1824–14 November 1912 aged 88 years, 283 days	5 August 1911 (aged 87)–14 November 1912 (aged 88) 1 year, 101 days
Angelo di Pierto		22 May 1828–14 November 1912 aged 86 years, 197 days	14 November 1912 (aged 83)–5 December 1914 (aged 86) 2 years, 21 days
François de Cabrières	France	30 August 1830–21 December 1921 aged 91 years, 113 days	5 December 1914 (aged 84)–21 December 1921 (aged 91) 7 years, 16 days
Giuseppe Prisco	Italy	8 September 1833–4 February 1923 aged 89 years, 149 days	21 December 1921 (aged 87)–4 February 1923 (aged 89) 1 year, 45 days
Vincenzo Vannutelli		5 December 1836–9 July 1930 aged 93 years, 216 days	4 February 1923 (aged 86)–9 July 1930 (aged 93) 7 years, 155 days
Andreas Frühwirth	Austria	21 August 1845–9 February 1933 aged 87 years, 172 days	9 July 1930(aged 84)–9 February 1933 (aged 87) 2 years, 215 days
Franz Ehrle	Germany	17 October 1845–31 March 1934 aged 88 years, 165 days	9 February 1933 (aged 87)–31 March 1933 (aged 88) 1 year, 54 days
Pierre Andrieu	France	7 December 1849–15 February 1935 aged 85 years, 70 days	31 March 1934(aged 84)–15 February 1935 (aged 85) 321 days
Gennaro Granito out Belmonte	Italy	10 April 1851–16 February 1948 aged 96 years, 312 days	15 February 1935(aged 83)–16 February 1951(aged 96) 13 years, 1 day
Enrico Sibilia		17 March 1861–4 August 1948 aged 87 years, 140 days	16 February 1948 (aged 86)–4 August 1948 (aged 87) 170 days
Alessandro Verde		27 March 1865–29 March 1958 aged 93 years, 2 days	4 August 1948 (aged 83)–29 March 1958 (aged 93) 9 years, 237 days
Jose Maria Caro	Chile	23 June 1866–4 December 1958 aged 92 years, 164 days	29 March 1958 (aged 91)–4 December 1958 (aged 92) 1 year, 250 days
Georges Grente	France	5 May 1872–5 May 1959 aged 87 years, 0 days	4 December 1958 (aged 86)–5 May 1959 (ages 87) 152 days
Elia dala Costa	Italy	14 May 1872–22 December 1961 aged 89 years, 222 days	5 May 1959 (aged 86)–22 December 1961 (aged 89) 2 years, 231 daya
Francesco Morano		8 June 1872–12 July 1968 aged 96 years, 34 days	22 December 1961 (aged 89)–12 July 1968 (aged 96) 6 years, 203 days
Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	15 November 1873–31 July 1968 aged 94 years, 259 days	12 July 1968 (aged 92)–31 July 1968 (aged 92) 19 days
Augusto da Silva	Brazil	8 April 1876–14 August 1968 aged 92 years, 128 days	31 July 1968 (aged 92)–14 August 1968 (aged 92) 14 days
Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	13 July 1877–1 August 1973 aged 93 years, 19 days	14 August 1968 (aged 91)–1 August 1973 (aged 93) 1 year, 352 days
Benedetto Aloisi Masella		29 June 1879–30 September 1970 aged 91 years, 93 days	1 August 1970–30 September 1970 60 days
Paolo Giobbe		10 January 1880–30 September 1970 aged 92 years, 217 days	30 September 1970 (aged 90)–14 August 1972 (aged 92) 1 year, 319 days
José da Costa Nunes	Portugal	15 March 1880–29 November 1976 (4 years, 107 days) aged 96 years, 259 days	14 August 1972 (aged 92) –29 November 1976(aged 96) 4 years, 107 days
Alberto di Jorio	Italy	18 July 1884–5 September 1979 aged 95 years, 49 days	29 November 1976-5 September 1979 4 years, 107 days
Antonio Caggiano	Argentina	30 January 1889–23 October 1979 aged 90 years, 266 days	5 September 1979 (aged 90)–23 October 1979 (aged 90) 48 days
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta	Brazil	16 July 1890–18 September 1982 aged 92 years, 64 days	23 October 1979 (aged 89)–18 September 1982 (aged 92) 2years, 326 days
Pietro Parente	Italy	16 February 1891–29 December 1986 aged 95 years, 356 days	18 September 1982 (aged 91)–29 December 1986 (aged 95) 4 years, 102 days
Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	18 August 1895–24 May 1990 aged 94 years, 279 days	29 December 1986 (aged 91)–24 May 1990 (aged 95) 3 years, 146 days
Henri de Lubac	France	20 February 1896–4 September 1991 aged 95 years, 196 days	24 May 1990 (aged 94)–4 September 1991(aged 95) 1 year, 103 days
Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli	Italy	14 July 1896 - 4 September 1991 aged 95 years, 196 days	4 September 1991–4 September 1991 (1 year, 103 days)
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	2 August 1901–12 March 2000 aged 98 years, 223 days	4 September 1991–12 March 2000 3 years, 83 days
Mikel Koliqi	Albania	29 September 1900–28 January 1997 aged 96 years, 121 days	26 November 1994–28 January 1997 2 years, 63 days
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	2 August 1901‐12 March 2000 aged 98 years, 223 days	28 January 1997‐12 March 2000 3 years, 44 days
Corrado Bafile	Italy	4 July 1903‐3 February 2005 aged 101 years, 214 days	12 March 2000‐3 February 2005 (4 years, 328 days)
Johannes Willebrands	Natherlands	4 September 1909‐1 August 2008 aged 96 years, 331 days	3 February 2005‐1 August 2008 (1 year, 180 days)
Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	23 August 1910‐12 December 2007 (1 year, 133 days)	1 August 2006‐12 December 2007 97 years, 311 days
Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	23 May 1911‐30 April 2010 aged 98 years, 312 days	12 December 2007‐30 April 2010 (2 years, 139 days)
Ersilio Tonini	Italy	20 July 1914‐28 July 2013 (3 years, 89 days)	30 April 2010‐28 July 2013 aged 99 years, 8 days
Fiorenzo Angelini		1 August 1916‐22 November 2014 aged 98 years, 113 days	28 July 2013‐22 February 2014 (209 days)
Loris Francesco Capovilla		14 October 1915‐6 May 2016 100 years, 224 days	22 February 2014‐26 May 2016 (2 years, 94 days)
José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	18 February 1919‐3 September 2019 aged 100 years, 197 days	26 May 2016‐3 September 2019 (3 years, 100 days)
Virgilio Noè	Italy	born 30 Mar 1922 aged 102 years, 90 days	3 September 2019 (aged 96)– (4 years, 299 days)

See Also

• List of Cardinals by Age (current)
• Cardinals by Death Date (who died at least 85 years old)
• Lists of Cardinals by death date
• List of current cardinals
• List of current members of the Philippine Judiciary