List of oldest living catholic prelates

This is a list of the 100 oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals (in bold on gold those who are Cardinals). The current breakdown of the 101 persons are 10 cardinals and 91 bishops.

List

Rank	Bishop or Cardinal	Date of birth	Age (years, days)	Ordained Priest	Consecrated Bishop	Country
1	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	104 years, 29 days	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico
2	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	102 years, 235 days	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States
3	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	101 years, 265 days	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy
4	Daniel Verstraete	July 31, 1924	101 years, 183 days	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa
5	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	October 3, 1924	101 years, 119 days	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	Brazil
6	Albert Houssiau	November 2, 1924	101 years, 89 days	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	Belgium
7	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	November 7, 1924	101 years, 84 days	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	Spain
8	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	November 8, 1924	101 years, 83 days	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	South Korea
9	Gaetano Bonicelli	December 13, 1924	101 years, 48 days	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	Italy
3-10	Thomas Zhao Duomo	1924	101 years, 30 days to 102 years, 29 days	1951	February 17, 2004	China
11	Alexandre do Nascimento	March 1, 1925	100 years, 335 days	December 20, 1952	August 31, 1975	Angola
12	James Hector MacDonald	April 28, 1925	100 years, 277 days	June 29, 1953	April 17, 1978	Canada
13	Angelo Acerbi	September 23, 1925	100 years, 129 days	March 27, 1948	June 30, 1974	Italy
14	Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	November 21, 1925	100 years, 70 days	March 29, 1952	October 5, 1975	France
15	John R. Gorman	December 11, 1925	100 years, 50 days	May 1, 1956	April 11, 1988	United States
16	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	February 7, 1926	99 years, 357 days	December 8, 1954	August 15, 1977	Argentina
17	Walter Ivan de Azevedo	May 8, 1926	99 years, 267 days	December 8, 1953	July 27, 1986	Brazil
18	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	June 16, 1926	99 years, 228 days	December 2, 1951	May 24, 1981	Brazil
19	Emanuele Catarinicchia	July 12, 1926	99 years, 202 days	April 2, 1949	December 17, 1978	Italy
20	Heitor de Araújo Sales	July 29, 1926	99 years, 185 days	December 3, 1950	June 16, 1978	Brazil
21	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	August 11, 1926	99 years, 172 days	December 6, 1950	August 28, 1966	Brazil
22	Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	August 24, 1926	99 years, 159 days	June 29, 1951	April 29, 1973	Ecuador
23	Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi	November 21, 1926	99 years, 70 days	December 17, 1950	December 10, 1982	Italy
24	Emmanuel Wamala	December 15, 1926	99 years, 46 days	December 21, 1957	November 22, 1981	Uganda
25	Michael Pak Jeong-il	December 18, 1926	99 years, 43 days	November 23, 1958	May 31, 1977	South Korea
26	Paolo Magnani	December 31, 1926	99 years, 30 days	June 29, 1951	September 10, 1977	Italy
27	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	January 25, 1927	99 years, 5 days	August 22, 1953	January 6, 1984	South Korea
28	Julian Wojtkowski	January 31, 1927	98 years, 364 days	June 25, 1950	August 22, 1969	Poland
29	Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno	February 14, 1927	98 years, 350 days	June 29, 1953	March 3, 1990	Ecuador
	Gilberto Pereira Lopes			December 14, 1949	December 18, 1969	Brazil
31	Dominic Anthony Marconi	March 13, 1927	98 years, 323 days	May 30, 1953	June 25, 1976	United States
32	Joseph Pallikaparampil	April 10, 1927	98 years, 295 days	November 23, 1958	August 15, 1973	India
33	Luis Pascual Dri	April 17, 1927	98 years, 288 days	March 29, 1952		Argentina
34	José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui	May 20, 1927	98 years, 255 days	November 20, 1949	October 25, 1977	Colombia
35	Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral	May 25, 1927	98 years, 250 days	December 8, 1954	April 20, 1975	Brazil
36	Joseph Martin Sartoris	July 1, 1927	98 years, 213 days	May 30, 1953	March 19, 1994	United States
37	Alberto Tricarico	August 10, 1927	98 years, 173 days	January 6, 1950	April 27, 1987	Italy
38	Kazimierz Romaniuk	August 21, 1927	98 years, 162 days	December 16, 1951	March 4, 1982	Poland
39	Edoardo Rovida	August 26, 1927	98 years, 157 days	June 29, 1950	October 10, 1971	Italy
40	Abraham Than	September 21, 1927	98 years, 131 days	September 22, 1957	May 11, 1969	Myanmar
41	Raymond E. Goedert	October 15, 1927	98 years, 107 days	May 1, 1952	August 29, 1991	United States
42	Júlio Duarte Langa	October 27, 1927	98 years, 95 days	June 9, 1957	October 24, 1976	Mozambique
43	Daniel Cronin	November 14, 1927	98 years, 77 days	December 20, 1952	September 12, 1968	United States
44	Raymond Razakarinvony	November 19, 1927	98 years, 72 days	July 27, 1956	May 17, 1998	Madagascar
45	Bernhard Kühnel	December 4, 1927	98 years, 57 days	August 6, 1955	April 27, 1983	Germany
46	Vincenzo Rimedio	December 5, 1927	98 years, 56 days	July 22, 1951	October 28, 1982	Italy
47	Giovanni Zerbini	December 29, 1927	98 years, 32 days	June 29, 1956	February 19, 1995	Italy
48	Friedrich Wetter	February 20, 1928	97 years, 344 days	October 10, 1953	June 29, 1968	Germany
49	Robert Joseph Banks	February 26, 1928	97 years, 338 days	December 20, 1952	September 19, 1985	United States
50	Klaus Dick	February 27, 1928	97 years, 337 days	February 24, 1953	May 19, 1975	Germany
51	John Stephen Cummins	March 3, 1928	97 years, 333 days	January 24, 1953	May 16, 1974	United States
52	Gerd Dicke	March 28, 1928	97 years, 308 days	July 25, 1952	February 16, 1970	Germany
53	Alfred Kleinermeilert	March 30, 1928	97 years, 306 days	October 10, 1953	May 3, 1968	Germany
54	Allan Chamgwera	April 30, 1928	97 years, 275 days	September 7, 1957	May 31, 1981	Malawi
55	Louis Edward Gelineau	May 3, 1928	97 years, 272 days	June 5, 1953	January 26, 1972	United States
56	Jacques Despierre	May 6, 1928	97 years, 269 days	June 24, 1952	October 10, 1982	France
57	Pierre Mouallem	May 10, 1928	97 years, 265 days	November 21, 1955	June 29, 1990	Israel
58	Daniel Patrick Reilly	May 12, 1928	97 years, 263 days	May 30, 1953	August 6, 1975	United States
59	Charles Louis Joseph Vandame	June 4, 1928	97 years, 240 days	September 7, 1960	January 6, 1982	Chad
60	Alphonsus Mathias	June 22, 1928	97 years, 222 days	August 24, 1954	February 5, 1964	India
61	Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân	June 24, 1928	97 years, 220 days	September 2, 1955	April 30, 1975	Vietnam
62	Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque	July 24, 1928	97 years, 190 days	December 8, 1953	May 5, 1985	Brazil
63	Philippe Bär	July 29, 1928	97 years, 185 days	July 26, 1959	March 20, 1982	Netherlands
64	Ignacio Trejos Picado	July 31, 1928	97 years, 183 days	March 8, 1952	March 8, 1968	Costa Rica
65	Peter Chung Hoan Ting	September 10, 1928	97 years, 142 days	September 26, 1954	November 15, 1970	Malaysia
66	Giuseppe Germano Bernardini	September 27, 1928	97 years, 125 days	March 21, 1953	April 9, 1983	Türkiye
67	Owen Dolan	September 30, 1928	97 years, 122 days	July 21, 1954	December 10, 1995	New Zealand
68	István Katona	October 3, 1928	97 years, 119 days	June 7, 1953	December 9, 1989	Hungary
69	Francisco Barroso Filho	October 8, 1928	97 years, 114 days	December 1, 1957	March 19, 1984	Brazil
70	Ernest Simoni	October 18, 1928	97 years, 104 days	April 7, 1956		Albania
71	Lucas Liu Hsien-tang	December 21, 1928	97 years, 40 days	November 30, 1956	January 1, 1981	Taiwan
72	Anton Pain Ratu	January 2, 1929	97 years, 28 days	August 17, 1958	September 21, 1982	Indonesia
73	Walter Brandmüller	January 5, 1929	97 years, 25 days	July 26, 1953	November 13, 2010	Germany
74	Melchior Shi Hongzhen	January 7, 1929	97 years, 23 days	July 4, 1954	June 15, 1982	China
75	Fritz Lobinger	January 22, 1929	97 years, 8 days	June 29, 1955	February 27, 1988	Germany
76	Adalberto Paulo da Silva	January 25, 1929	97 years, 5 days	December 8, 1956	August 3, 1975	Brazil
	Michael Michai Kitbunchu			December 20, 1959	June 3, 1973	Thailand
78	Edgerton Roland Clarke	February 14, 1929	96 years, 350 days	February 2, 1960	November 30, 1967	Jamaica
79	Leo Nowak	March 17, 1929	96 years, 319 days	May 10, 1956	March 24, 1990	Germany
80	Georges Gilson	May 30, 1929	96 years, 245 days	April 20, 1957	October 9, 1976	France
81	Pier Giuliano Tiddia	June 13, 1929	96 years, 231 days	December 16, 1951	February 2, 1975	Italy
82	Paolo Gillet	July 8, 1929	96 years, 206 days	September 19, 1953	January 6, 1994	Italy
83	René Dupont	September 2, 1929	96 years, 150 days	June 29, 1953	July 25, 1969	France
84	Patricio Infante Alfonso	October 9, 1929	96 years, 113 days	June 28, 1953	September 23, 1984	Chile
85	Angelo Mascheroni	October 13, 1929	96 years, 109 days	June 13, 1952	June 24, 1990	Italy
86	Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez	October 18, 1929	96 years, 104 days	June 25, 1955	March 19, 1970	Cuba
87	Antônio de Souza	October 21, 1929	96 years, 101 days	July 1, 1956	April 16, 1974	Brazil
88	Vincenzo Zarri	October 23, 1929	96 years, 99 days	July 25, 1952	June 29, 1976	Italy
89	Paul-Marie Gillaume	October 31, 1929	96 years, 91 days	April 9, 1955	December 9, 1984	France
90	Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal	December 2, 1929	96 years, 59 days	August 17, 1958	September 8, 1972	Colombia
91	José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle	December 3, 1929	96 years, 58 days	January 10, 1954	July 23, 1982	Brazil
92	Ramón Buxarrais Ventura	December 12, 1929	96 years, 49 days	December 17, 1955	October 3, 1971	Spain
93	Jean-Charles Thomas	Decemberber 16, 1929	96 years, 45 days	July 5, 1953	May 1, 1972	France
94	Victorio Oliver Domingo	December 23, 1929	96 years, 38 days	June 27, 1954	October 12, 1972	Spain
95	Thomas Gumbleton	January 26, 1930	96 years, 4 days	June 2, 1956	May 1, 1968	United States
96	Miguel Caviedes	January 30, 1930	96 years, 0 days	September 18, 1954	December 19, 1982	Chile
97	Jean Bonfils	February 15, 1930	95 years, 349 days	December 7, 1954	January 10, 1993	France
98	Pedro Dean	February 21, 1930	95 years, 343 days	November 30, 1956	January 25, 1978	Philippines
99	David Cremin	February 22, 1930	95 years, 342 days	June 12, 1955	January 19, 1974	Australia
100	Francesco Cuccarese	March 8, 1930	95 years, 328 days	July 19, 1953	April 1, 1979	Italy

See Also

• List of longest-living Cardinals
• List of current cardinals