List of longest-living cardinals

This article lists the 100 longest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals (born post-1800), and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived was Portuguese, Dom Jorge da Costa who lived to ages of 101 years 262 days to 102 years, 261 days. The Second longest-lived another Italian Cardinal Corrado Bafile who lived to 101 years, 214 days.

List

Corrado Bafile, The Longest Lived-Cardinal with verifiable dates of birth and death

Loris Franceso Capovilla, The Second Longest-lived Cardinal

José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez, The Third longest-lived cardinal

Alexandre do Nascimiento, the 4th-longest lived cardinal and the longest-lived Angolan Cardinal

Currently Living

Rank	Cardinal	Country	Born	Died	Age
1	Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903	2005	101 years, 214 days
2	Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	1915	2016	100 years, 224 days
3	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	1919	2019	100 years, 197 days
4	Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	1925	Alive	99 years, 305 days
5	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914	2013	99 years, 8 days
6	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	1920	2019	98 years, 362 days
7	Paul Augustin Mayer OSA	Germany	1911	2010	98 years, 342 days
8	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	Alive	98 years, 328 days
9	Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	1901	2000	98 years, 223 days
	Franz König	Austria	1905	2004
11	Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	1924	2022	98 years 150 days
12	Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916	2014	98 years, 113 days
13	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926	Alive	98 years, 16 days
14	Albert Vanhoye, SJ	France	1923	2021	98 years, 5 days
15	Paolo Dezza, S.J.	Italy	1901	1999	98 years, 4 days
16	Luis Pascual Dri OFMCap	Argentina	1927	Alive	97 years, 258 days
17	Alexandre dos Santos, O.F.M.	Mozambique	1924	2021	97 years, 195 days
18	Alfons Maria Stickler SDB	Austria	1910	2007	97 years, 111 days
19	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	1927	Alive	97 years, 65 days
20	Henryk Gulbinowicz	Poland	1923	2020	97 years, 30 days
21	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M.	Italy	1896	1993	96 years, 363 days
22	Roger Etchegaray	France	1922	2019	96 years, 344 days
23	Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	1909	2008	96 years, 331 days
24	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928	Alive	96 years, 315 days
25	Gennaro Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
26	Edward Cassidy	Australia	1924	2021	96 years, 279 days
27	Kazimierz Świątek	Belarus	1914	2011	96 years, 273 days
28	José da Costa Nuñes	Portugal	1880	1976	96 years, 259 days
29	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	1918	2006	96 years, 211 days
30	Domenico Bartolucci	Italy	1917	2013	96 years, 188 days
31	Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J.	Zambia	1911	2007	96 years, 180 days
32	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	Spain	1925	2022	96 years, 175 days
33	Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1900	1997	96 years, 121 days
34	Ernest Simoni	Albania	1928	Alive	96 years, 74 days
35	Francesco Morano	Italy	1872	1968	96 years, 34 days
36	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	1929	Alive	95 years, 361 days
37	Luigi De Magistris	Italy	1926	2022	95 years 358 days
38	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	1929	Alive	95 years, 341 days
39	José Freire Falcão	Brazil	1925	2021	95 years, 338 days
40	Pietro Parente	Italy	1891	1986	95 years, 316 days
41	Achille Silvestrini	Italy	1923	2019	95 years, 308 days
42	Agostino Cacciavillan	Italy	1926	2022	95 years, 204 days
43	Henri de Lubac S.J.	France	1896	1991	95 years, 196 days
44	Paulo Evaristo Arns	Brazil	1921	2016	95 years, 91 days
45	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	Brazil	1924	2019	95 years, 56 days
46	Alberto Di Jorio	Italy	1884	1979	95 years, 49 days
47	Corrado Ursi	Italy	1908	2003	95 years, 34 days
48	Adam Maida	United States	1930	Alive	94 years, 288 days
49	Jorge Medina Estévez	Chile	1926	2021	94 years, 284 days
50	Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	1895	1990	94 years, 279 days
51	Julian Herranz Casado	Spain	1930	Alive	94 years, 275 days
52	Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	1873	1968	94 years, 259 days
53	Louis-Albert Vachon	Canada	1912	2006	94 years, 237 days
54	Egano Righi-Lambertini	Italy	1906	2000	94 years, 225 days
55	Angelo Sodano	Italy	1927	2022	94 years, 205 days
56	Gilberto Agustoni	Italy	1922	2017	94 years, 171 days
57	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Spain	1927	2021	94 years, 142 days
58	Paul Poupard	France	1930	Alive	94 years, 123 days
59	Giovanni Cheli	Italy	1918	2013	94 years 122 days
60	Salvatore De Giorgi	Italy	1930	Alive	94 years, 116 days
61	Giuseppe Sensi	Italy	1907	2001	94 years, 60 days
62	Janis Pujats	Latvia	1930	Alive	94 years, 47 days
63	Marian Jaworski	Poland	1926	2020	94 years 13 days
64	Carlo Furno	Italy	1921	2015	94 years, 7 days
65	Prosper Grech, O.S.A.	Malta	1925	2019	94 years, 6 days
66	Roberto Tucci	Italy	1921	2015	93 years, 360 days
67	Georges Cottier	Switzerland	1922	2016	93 years, 341 days
68	John Carberry	United States	1904	1998	93 years, 321 days
69	Camillo Ruini	Italy	1931	Alive	93 years, 316 days
70	Paolo Bertoli	Italy	1908	2001	93 years, 280 days
71	Thomas Williams	United States	1930	2023	93 years. 276 days
72	Opilio Rossi	United States	1910	2004	93 years, 271 days
73	Lucian Mureșan	Romania	1931	Alive	93 years, 222 days
74	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	1836	1930	93 years, 216 days
75	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Spain	1926	2019	93 years, 201 days
76	Jean Margéot	Mauritius	1916	2009	93 years, 164 days
77	Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	1806	1899	93 years, 152 days
78	Simon Pimenta	Italy	1920	2013	93 years, 140 days
79	František Tomášek	Czech Republic	1899	1992	93 years, 35 days
80	Alfredo Scherer	Brazil	1903	1996	93 years, 33 days
81	James Francis McIntyre	United States	1886	1979	93 years, 21 days
82	Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	1877	1970	93 years, 19 days
83	Antonio Innocenti	Italy	1915	2008	93 years, 14 days
84	Carlo Confalonieri	Italy	1893	1986	93 years, 7 days
85	Alessandro Verde	Italy	1865	1958	93 years, 2 days
86	José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F.	Portugal	1932	Alive	92 years, 360 days
87	Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B.	China	1932	Alive	92 years, 353 days
88	Julien Ries	Belgium	1920	2013	92 years, 310 days
89	Juan Carlos Aramburu	Argentina	1912	2004	92 years, 281 days
90	Sergio Sebastiani	Italy	1931	2023	92 years, 280 days
91	Paolo Giobbe	Italy	1880	1972	92 years, 217 days
92	Josyf Slipyj	Ukraine	1892	1984	92 years, 203 days
	Léon-Étienne Duval	Algeria	1903	1996
94	Jean-Marcel Honoré	France	1920	2013	92 years, 199 days
95	Joseph Asajiro Satowaki	Japan	1904	1996	92 years, 189 days
96	Luigi Poggi	Italy	1917	2010	92 years, 160 days
98	James Stafford	United States	1932	Alive	92 years, 158 days
99	Gaudencio Rosales	Philippinees	1932	Alive	92 years, 143 days
100	Silvano Piovanelli	Italy	1924	2016	92 years, 139 days

Next to Join

Up-to-date 11/15/2024
Rank	Cardinal	Country	Born	Died	Age	Date of Entry After
1	Francis Arinze	Nigeria	1932	Alive	92 years, 14 days	2025-03-16 Maurice Feltin
2	Renato Martino	Italy	1932	Alive	91 years, 358 days	2025-04-11 Silvano Piovanelli
3	Kelvin Edward Felix	Saint Lucia	1933	Alive	91 years, 274 days	2025-08-04 Maurice Feltin
4	Walter Kasper	Germany	1933	Alive	91 years, 255 days	2025-09-08 Luigi Poggi
5	Juan Sandoval Íñiguez	Mexxico	1933	Alive	91 years, 232 days	2025-10-13 Joseph Asajiro Satowaki
6	Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Isch	Chile	1933	Alive	91 years, 71 days	2026-03-27 Josyf Slipyj Léon-Étienne Duval
7	Raffaele Farina, S.D.B.	Italy	1933	Alive	91 years, 52 days	2026-04-29 Josyf Slipyj Léon-Étienne Duval (tied age)
8	Giovanni Battista Re	Italy	1934	Alive	90 years, 290 days	2026-08-25 Josyf Slipyj Léon-Étienne Duval (tied age)
9	Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn	Vietnam	1934	Alive	90 years, 255 days	2026-10-08 Paolo Giobbe
10	Francesco Monterisi	Italy	1934	Alive	90 years, 171 days	2027-03-27 Sergio Sebastiani

Chronological list of Oldest living members of the College of Cardinals

Name	Country	Born	Became oldest	Ceased to be Oldest	Death and age
John Henry Newman	U.K. England	1801-02-21	??	1890-08-11 89 years, 171 days
Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	1806.02.06	1899.08.11	1899.07.11 aged 93 years, 152 days
Luigi Di Canossa	Italy	04/20/1809	1899.07.11	1900.03.12 aged 90 years, 358 days
Michelangelo Celesia	Italy	1814.01.13	1900.03.12 -1904.04.14 314 days	1904.04.14 aged 90 years, 92 days
François-Marie-Benjamin Richard	France	1819.03.01	1904.04.14	1904.01.27 aged 88 years, 332 days
Anton Josef Gruscha	Italy	1820.11.03	1908.12.27	1911.08.05 aged 90 years, 275 daya
Alfonso Capecelatro	Italy	1824.02.05	1911.08.05	1912.11.14 aged 88 years, 283 days
Angelo di Pierto	Italy	1828.05.22	1912.11.14	1914.12.05 aged 86 years, 197 days
François de Cabrières	France	1830.08.30	1914.12.05	1921.12.21 aged 91 years, 113 days
Giuseppe Prisco	Italy	1833.09.08	1921.12.21	1923.02.04 aged 89 years, 149 days
Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	1836.12.05	1923.02.04	1930.07.09 aged 93 years, 216 days
Andreas Frühwirth	Austria	1845.08.21	1930.07.09	1933.02.09 aged 87 years, 172 days
Franz Ehrle	Germany	1845.10.17	1933.02.09	1934.03.31 aged 88 years, 165 days
Pierre Andrieu	France	1849.12.07	1934.03.31	1935.02.15 aged 85 years, 70 days
Gennaro Granito out Belmonte	Italy	1851.04.10	1935.02.15	1948.02.16 aged 96 years, 312 days
Enrico Sibilia	Italy	1861.03.17	1948.02.16	1948.08.04 aged 87 years, 140 days
Alessandro Verde	Italy	1865.03.27	1948.08.04	1958.03.29 aged 93 years, 2 days
Jose Maria Caro	Chile	1866.06.23	1958.03.29	1958.12.04 aged 92 years, 164 days
Georges Grente	France	1872.05.05	1958.12.04	1959.05.05 aged 87 years, 0 days
Elia dala Costa	Italy	1872.05.14	1959.05.05	1961.12.22 aged 89 years, 222 days
Francesco Morano	Italy	1872.06.08	1961.12.22	1968.07.12 aged 96 years, 34 days
Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	1873.11.15	1968.07.12	1968.07.31 aged 94 years, 259 days
Augusto da Silva	Brazil	1876.04.08	1968.07.31	1968.08.14 aged 92 years, 128 days
Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	1877.07.13	1968.08.14	1970.08.01 aged 93 years, 19 days
Benedetto Aloisi Masella	Italy	1879.06.29	1970.08.01	1970.09.30 aged 91 years, 93 days
Paolo Giobbe	Italy	1880.01.10	1970.09.30	1970.09.30 aged 92 years, 217 days
José da Costa Nunes	Portugal	1880.03.15	1972.08.14	1976.11.29 aged 96 years, 259 days
Alberto di Jorio	Italy	1884.07.18	1976.11.29	1979.09.05 aged 95 years, 49 days
Antonio Caggiano	Argentina	1889.01.30	1979.09.05	1979.10.23 aged 90 years, 266 days
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta	Brazil	1890.07.16	1979.10.23	1982.09.18 aged 92 years, 64 days
Pietro Parente	Italy	1891.02.16	1982.09.18	1986.12.29 aged 95 years, 356 days
Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	1895.08.08	1986.12.29	1990.05.24 aged 94 years, 279 days
Henri de Lubac	France	1896.02.20	1990.05.24	1991.09.04 aged 95 years, 196 days
Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli	Italy	1896.07.14	1991.09.04	1993.07.12 aged 95 years, 196 days
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	1901.01.01	1993.07.12	1994.11.26	2000.03.12 aged 98 years, 223 days
Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1900.09.29	1994.11.26	1997.01.28 aged 96 years, 121 days
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	1901.08.02	1997.01.28	2000.03.12 aged 98 years, 223 days
Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903.07.04	2000.03.12	2005.02.03 aged 101 years, 214 days
Johannes Willebrands	Natherlands	1909.09.04	2005.03.02	2008.08.01 aged 96 years, 331 days
Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	1910.08.23	2006.08.01	2007.12.12 (1 year, 133 days)
Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1911.05.23	2007.12.12	2010.04.30 aged 98 years, 312 days
Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914.07.20	2010.04.30	2013.07.28	2013.07.28 (3 years, 89 days)
Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916.01.08	2013.07.28	2014.02.22	2014.11.22 aged 98 years, 113 days
Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	1915.10.14	2014.02.22	2016.05.26 aged 100 years, 224 days
José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	1919.02.18	2016.05.26	2019.09.03 aged 100 years, 197 days
Roger Etchegaray	France	1922.09.05	2019.09.03	2019.09.04 aged 96 years, 344 days
Albert Vanhoye	France	1923.07.24	2019.09.04	2021.07.29 aged 98 years, 5 days
Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	1924.03.11	29 July 2021	2022.07.14 aged 98 years, 150 days
Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	born 1925.03.01	8 August 2022	Alive 99 years, 259 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
• Hypothetical List of longest-living Cardinals
• List of longest-living state leaders
• Past longest-living cardinals
• List of Piston Cup Racing Series Champions