List of oldest living catholic prelates

This is a list of the 99 oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals (in bold those who are Cardinals, in bold and Bold text the Pope emeritus). The current breakdown of the 99 persons are the Pope Emeritus, 10 cardinals and 88 bishops.

Rank	Bishop or Cardinal	Date of birth	Ordained Priest	Consecrated Bishop	Country of origin	Age (years, days)
1	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada	101 years, 190 days
2	John Bai Ningxian	January 20, 1921	June 20, 1951	May 7, 1997	China	100 years, 248 days
3	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico	100 years, 236 days
4	Joseph Hou Guoyang	1922	1951	October 8, 1989	China	99–98 years
5	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico	99 years, 267 days
6	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy	98 years, 142 days
7	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States	98 years, 108 days
8	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain	98 years, 19 days
9	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy	97 years, 362 days
10	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy	97 years, 303 days
11	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy	97 years, 300 days
12	Thomas Zhao Duomo	1924	1951	February 17, 2004	China	97–96 years
13	Stanisław Szymecki	January 26, 1924	July 3, 1947	April 12, 1981	Poland	97 years, 242 days
14	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada	97 years, 213 days
15	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia	97 years, 198 days
16	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan	97 years, 178 days
17	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy	97 years, 138 days
18	Daniel Verstraete	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa	97 years, 56 days
19	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	October 3, 1924	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	Brazil	96 years, 357 days
20	Albert Houssiau	November 2, 1924	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	Belgium	96 years, 327 days
21	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	November 7, 1924	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	Spain	96 years, 322 days
22	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	November 8, 1924	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	South Korea	96 years, 321 days
23	John Aloysius O'Mara	November 17, 1924	June 1, 1951	June 29, 1976	United States	96 years, 312 days
24	Gaetano Bonicelli	December 13, 1924	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	Italy	96 years, 286 days
25	Alexandre do Nascimento	March 1, 1925	December 20, 1952	August 31, 1975	Angola	96 years, 208 days
26	João Evangelista Martins Terra	March 7, 1925	December 22, 1956	November 20, 1988	Brazil	96 years, 202 days
27	James Hector MacDonald	April 28, 1925	June 29, 1953	April 17, 1978	Canada	96 years, 150 days
28	Ignatius Paul Pinto	May 18, 1925	August 24, 1952	January 31, 1989	India	96 years, 130 days
29	Ernest Bertrand Boland	July 10, 1925	June 9, 1955	July 25, 1966	United States	96 years, 77 days
30	Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand	July 11, 1925	October 10, 1948	September 14, 1975	France	96 years, 76 days
31	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	July 14, 1925	June 11, 1950	June 3, 1973	Spain	96 years, 73 days
32	Joseph Gabriel Fernandez	September 16, 1925	March 19, 1949	May 14, 1978	India	96 years, 9 days
33	Angelo Acerbi	September 23, 1925	March 27, 1948	June 30, 1974	Italy	96 years, 2 days
34	Joseph Hitti	September 30, 1925	March 24, 1951	January 6, 1991	Lebanon	95 years, 360 days
35	Didier-Léon Marchand	November 1, 1925	May 19, 1951	November 5, 1978	France	95 years, 328 days
36	Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	November 21, 1925	March 29, 1952	October 5, 1975	France	95 years, 308 days
37	Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes	December 9, 1925	December 17, 1949	December 17, 1977	Guatemala	95 years, 290 days
38	John R. Gorman	December 11, 1925	May 1, 1956	April 11, 1988	United States	95 years, 288 days
39	John Huo Cheng	February 1, 1926	May 14, 1954	September 4, 1991	China	95 years, 236 days
40	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	February 7, 1926	December 8, 1954	August 15, 1977	Argentina	95 years, 230 days
41	Luigi De Magistris	February 23, 1926	April 12, 1952	April 28, 1996	Italy	95 years, 214 days
42	Gabino Díaz Merchán	February 26, 1926	July 13, 1952	August 22, 1965	Spain	95 years, 211 days
43	Maurice Taylor	May 5, 1926	July 2, 1950	June 9, 1981	United Kingdom	95 years, 143 days
44	Walter Ivan de Azevedo	May 8, 1926	December 8, 1953	July 27, 1986	Brazil	95 years, 140 days
45	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	June 16, 1926	December 2, 1951	May 24, 1981	Brazil	95 years, 101 days
46	Jānis Cakuls	July 4, 1926	September 18, 1949	December 11, 1982	Latvia	95 years, 83 days
47	Emanuele Catarinicchia	July 12, 1926	April 2, 1949	December 17, 1978	Italy	95 years, 75 days
48	James Chan Soon Cheong	July 26, 1926	August 6, 1959	June 8, 1973	Malaysia	95 years, 61 days
49	Heitor de Araújo Sales	July 29, 1926	December 3, 1950	June 16, 1978	Brazil	95 years, 58 days
50	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	August 11, 1926	December 6, 1950	August 28, 1966	Brazil	95 years, 45 days
51	Agostino Cacciavillan	August 14, 1926	June 26, 1949	February 21, 1976	Italy	95 years, 42 days
52	Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	August 24, 1926	June 29, 1951	April 29, 1973	Ecuador	95 years, 32 days
53	Lawrence Donald Soens	August 26, 1926	May 6, 1950	August 17, 1983	United States	95 years, 30 days
54	Gilbert Sheldon	September 20, 1926	February 28, 1953	June 11, 1976	United States	95 years, 5 days
55	Ernesto Togni	October 6, 1926	May 7, 1950	September 17, 1978	Switzerland	94 years, 354 days
56	Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi	November 21, 1926	December 17, 1950	December 10, 1982	Italy	94 years, 308 days
57	Emmanuel Wamala	December 15, 1926	December 21, 1957	November 22, 1981	Uganda	94 years, 284 days
58	Michael Pak Jeong-il	December 18, 1926	November 23, 1958	May 31, 1977	South Korea	94 years, 281 days
59	Paolo Magnani	December 31, 1926	June 29, 1951	September 10, 1977	Italy	94 years, 268 days
60	Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên	January 7, 1927	May 14, 1960	November 19, 1992	Vietnam	94 years, 261 days
61	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	January 25, 1927	August 22, 1953	January 6, 1984	South Korea	94 years, 243 days
62	Julian Wojtkowski	January 31, 1927	June 25, 1950	August 22, 1969	Poland	94 years, 237 days
63 / 64	Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno	February 14, 1927	June 29, 1953	March 3, 1990	Ecuador	94 years, 223 days
	Gilberto Pereira Lopes	February 14, 1927	December 14, 1949	December 18, 1969	Brazil	94 years, 223 days
65	Senan Louis O’Donnell	February 24, 1927	July 17, 1955	November 28, 1993	Ireland	94 years, 213 days
66	Dominic Anthony Marconi	March 13, 1927	May 30, 1953	June 25, 1976	United States	94 years, 196 days
67	Rembert George Weakland	April 2, 1927	June 24, 1951	September 20, 1977	United States	94 years, 176 days
68	Joseph Pallikaparampil	April 10, 1927	November 23, 1958	August 15, 1973	India	94 years, 168 days
69	Joseph Ratzinger	April 16, 1927	June 29, 1951	May 28, 1977	Germany	94 years, 162 days
70	José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui	May 20, 1927	November 20, 1949	October 25, 1977	Colombia	94 years, 128 days
71	Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral	May 25, 1927	December 8, 1954	April 20, 1975	Brazil	94 years, 123 days
72	Raul Nicolau Gonçalves	June 15, 1927	December 21, 1950	March 5, 1967	India	94 years, 102 days
73	Joseph Martin Sartoris	July 1, 1927	May 30, 1953	March 19, 1994	United States	94 years, 86 days
74	Howard George Tripp	July 3, 1927	May 31, 1953	January 30, 1980	United Kingdom	94 years, 84 days
75	James Timlin	August 5, 1927	July 16, 1951	September 21, 1976	United States	94 years, 51 days
76	Alberto Tricarico	August 10, 1927	January 6, 1950	April 27, 1987	Italy	94 years, 46 days
77	Kazimierz Romaniuk	August 21, 1927	December 16, 1951	March 4, 1982	Poland	94 years, 35 days
78	Edoardo Rovida	August 26, 1927	June 29, 1950	October 10, 1971	Italy	94 years, 30 days
79	Abraham Than	September 21, 1927	September 22, 1957	May 11, 1969	Myanmar	94 years, 4 days
80	Abraham Nehmé	October 8, 1927	January 3, 1954	October 26, 1986	Syria	93 years, 352 days
81	Raymond E. Goedert	October 15, 1927	May 1, 1952	August 29, 1991	United States	93 years, 345 days
82	Júlio Duarte Langa	October 27, 1927	June 9, 1957	October 24, 1976	Mozambique	93 years, 333 days
83	Pierre Trân Thanh Chung	November 10, 1927	May 25, 1955	November 22, 1981	Vietnam	93 years, 319 days
84	Daniel A. Cronin	November 14, 1927	December 20, 1952	September 12, 1968	United States	93 years, 315 days
85	Raymond Razakarinvony	November 19, 1927	July 27, 1956	May 17, 1998	Madagascar	93 years, 310 days
86	Angelo Sodano	November 23, 1927	September 23, 1950	January 15, 1978	Italy	93 years, 306 days
87	Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer	December 4, 1927	August 6, 1955	April 27, 1983	Germany	93 years, 295 days
88	Vincenzo Rimedio	December 5, 1927	July 22, 1951	October 28, 1982	Italy	93 years, 294 days
89	Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz	December 28, 1927	June 29, 1950	January 5, 1989	Peru	93 years, 271 days
90	Giovanni Zerbini	December 29, 1927	June 29, 1956	February 19, 1995	Italy	93 years, 270 days
91	Friedrich Wetter	February 20, 1928	October 10, 1953	June 29, 1968	Germany	93 years, 217 days
92	Robert Joseph Banks	February 26, 1928	December 20, 1952	September 19, 1985	United States	93 years, 211 days
93	Klaus Dick	February 27, 1928	February 24, 1953	May 19, 1975	Germany	93 years, 210 days
94	John Stephen Cummins	March 3, 1928	January 24, 1953	May 16, 1974	United States	93 years, 206 days
95	Gerd Dicke	March 28, 1928	July 25, 1952	February 16, 1970	Germany	93 years, 199 days
96 / 97	Alfred Kleinermeilert	March 31, 1928	October 10, 1953	May 3, 1968	Germany	93 years, 196 days
	Peter Henrici	March 31, 1928	July 23, 1958	May 31, 1993	Switzerland	93 years, 196 days
98	Antonino Orrù	April 23, 1928	July 13, 1952	May 13, 1990	Italy	93 years, 176 days
99	Allan Chamwera	April 30, 1928	September 7, 1957	May 31, 1981	Malawi	93 yeats, 169 days

1. ^ In this list not included Mgr Phocas Nikwigize, Bishop Emeritus of Ruhengeri. Mgr Nikwigize was born in 1919. He was kidnapped with others near Goma on 27 November 1996 by members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. None of the people who were kidnapped around this time were not found alive. It would have been assassinated on November 30, 1996, but the Holy See did not declare him dead because his body has not been found and there has been no eyewitness testimony to his death. However, his death has been reported on several occasions. It is inconceivable that he is still alive but that he has not been seen since November 1996.