List of longest-living cardinals

This article lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals, born no earlier than 1800, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Cardinal (who was born after 1800 was Italian Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla, who lived to 100 years 224 days. The Second Longest-lived cardinal being Colombian José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguezho lived to 100 years 197 days, just 27 days shy of tying Cardinal Capovilla's age.

List

Rank	Name	Country	Birth	Death	Age
1	Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	14 October 1915	26 May 2016	100 years 224 days
2	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	Colombia	18 February 1919	3 September 2019	100 years 197 days
3	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	20 July 1914	28 July 2013	99 years 8 days
4	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	15 May 1920	12 May 2019	98 years, 362 days
5	Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	23 May 1911	30 April 2010	98 years 342 days
6	Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	2 August 1901	12 March 2000	98 years, 223 days
7	Jozef Tomko	Czechoslovakia	11 March 1924	8 August 2022	98 years 150 days
8	Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1 August 1916	22 November 2014	98 years, 113 days
9	Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	1 March 1925	Alive	99 years, 271 days
10	Albert Vanhoye	France	24 July 1923	29 July 2021	98 years 59 days
11	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	7 February 1926	Alive	95 years, 294 days
12	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	15 December 1926	Alive	97 years 166 days
13	Henryk Gulbinowicz	Poland	17 October 1923	16 November 2020)	97 years 30 days
14	Roger Etchegaray	France	25 September 1922	4 September 2019	96 years 344 days
15	Edward Cassidy	Australia	5 July 1924	10 April 2021	96 years 279 days
16	Kazimierz Świątek	Belarus	21 October 1914	21 July 2011	96 years 273 days
17	Domenico Bartolucci	Italy	7 May 1917	11 November 2013	96 years, 188 days
18	José Freire Falcão	Brazil	23 October 1925	26 September 2021	95 years 338 days
19	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	30 September 1918	29 April 2015	96 years, 211 days
20	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	Spain	14 July 1925	5 January 2022	96 years 175 days
23	Luigi De Magistris	Italy	23 February 1926	16 February 2022	95 years 358 days
22	Achille Silvestrini	Italy	25 October 1923	29 August 2019	95 years, 310 days
21	Agostino Cacciavillan	Italy	14 August 1926	5 March 2022	95 years 204 days
24	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	27 October 1927	Alive	97 years, 31 days
25	Template:Wo	Germany	20 February 1928	Alive	96 years, 281 days
26	Paulo Evaristo Arns	Brazil	14 September 1921	14 December 2016	95 years, 91 days
27	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	Brazil	13 August 1924	8 October 2019	95 years, 56 days
28	Corrado Ursi	Italy	26 July 1908	29 August 2003	95 years, 34 days
29	Jorge Medina Estévez	Chile	23 December 1926	3 October 2021	94 years 284 days
30	Egano Righi-Lambertini	Italy	22 February 1906	4 October 2000	94 years, 225 days
31	Ernest Simoni	Albania	18 October 1928	Alive	96 years, 31 days
32	Angelo Sodano	Italy	23 November 1927	27 May 2022	94 years 205 days
33	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	5 January 1929	Alive	95 years, 327 days
34	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Spain	31 March 1927	10 August 2021	94 years 142 days
35	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	25 January 1929	Alive	99 years, 307 days
36	Giovanni Cheli	Italy	4 October 1918	8 February 2013	94 years 122 days
37	Gilberto Agustoni	italy	26 July 1922	13 January 2017	94 years, 171 days
38	Giuseppe Sensi	Italy	27 May 1907	26 July 2001	94 years, 60 days
39	Marian Jaworski	Poland	21 August 1926	5 September 2020	94 years 13 days
40	Carlo Furno	Italy	2 December 1921	9 December 2015	94 years, 7 days
41	Prosper Grech	Malta	24 December 1925	30 December 2019	94 years, 6 days
42	Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	9 February 1806	11 July 1899	93 years 152 days
44	Roberto Tucci	Italy	19 April 1921	14 April 2015	93 years, 360 days
44	Georges Cottier	Switzerland	25 April 1922	31 March 2016	93 years, 341 days
45	Paolo Bertoli	Italy	1 February 1908	8 November 2001	93 years, 280 days
46	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Spain	1 January 1926	21 July 2019	93 years, 201 days
47	Ignatius Pimenta	Italy	1 March 1920	19 July 2013	93 years 140 days
48	Adam Joseph Maida	United States	18 March 1930	Alive	94 years, 254 days
49	Thomas Stafford Williams	United States	20 March 1930	Alive	94 years, 243 days
50	Julien Ries	Belgium	19 April 1920	23 February 2013	92 years 310 days
51	Luigi Poggi	Italy	25 November 1917	4 May 2010	92 years 160 days
52	Silvano Piovanelli	Italy	21 February 1924	9 July 2016	92 years 139 days
53	Giuseppe Casoria	Italy	1 October 1908	8 February 2001	92 years, 130 days
54	Miguel Obando y Bravo	Nicaraguan	2 February 1926	3 June 2018	92 years, 121 days
55	Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo	Italy	27 August 1925	19 November 2017	92 years, 84 days
56	José Tomás Sánchez	Philippines	17 March 1920	9 March 2012	91 years 358 days
57	Eugenio de Araujo Sales	Brazil	8 November 1920	9 July 2012	91 years 244 days
58	Sebastian Koto Khoarai	Lesotho	11 September 1929	17 April 2021	91 years 219 days

See Also

• List of Cardinals by Age