List of longest-living cardinals

This article lists the 100 longest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals (born non earlier than 1500). Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Cardinal was Italian Corrado Bafile (1903-2005) who lived to 101 years, 215 days.

Gallery

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  Oldest:
   Italy
  Corrado Bafile

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  2nd-Oldest ever:
   Italy
  Loris Francesco Capovilla

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  3rd-Oldest:
   Colombia
  José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez

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  8th-Oldest ever:
   Argentina
  Estanislao Esteban Karlic

List

Color	Age Range
Gray	Deceased Cardinals
Columbia Blue	Living Cardinals

No.	Cardinal	Country	Birth	Death	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	2024	99 years, 212 days
5	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914	2013	99 years, 8 days
6	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	1920	2019	98 years, 362 days
8	Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1911	2010	98 years, 342 days
8	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	Alive	98 years, 293 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 151 days
12	Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916	2014	98 years, 113 days
13	Albert Vanhoye, SJ	France	1923	2021	98 years, 5 days
14	Paolo Dezza, S.J.	Italy	1901	1999	98 years, 4 days
15	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926	Alive	97 years, 361 days
16	Alexandre José María dos Santos O.F.M.	Mozambique	1924	2021	97 years, 195 days
17	Luis Pascual Dri OFM Cap.	Argentina	1927	Alive	97 years, 223 days
18	Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	1910	2007	97 years, 111 days
19	Henryk Gulbinowicz	Poland	1923	2020	97 years, 30 days
20	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli O.F.M.	Italy	1896	1993	96 years, 363 days
21	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	1927	Alive	97 years, 39 days
22	Roger Etchegaray	France	1922	2019	96 years, 344 days
23	Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	1909	2008	96 years, 331 days
24	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
25	Edward Cassidy	Australia	1924	2021	96 years, 279 days
26	Kazimierz Świątek	Belgium	1914	2011	96 years, 273 days
27	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928	Alive	96 years, 272 days
28	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	1918	2015	96 years, 211 days
29	José da Costa Nunes	Portugal	1880	1976	96 years, 259 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, 177 days
33	Francesco Morano	Italy	1872	1968	96 years, 34 days
34	Luigi De Magistris	Italy	1926	2022	95 years 358 days
35	Ernest Simoni	Albania	1928	Alive	96 years, 39 days
36	José Freire Falcão	Brazil	1925	2021	95 years, 338 days
37	Pietro Parente	Italy	1891	1986	95 years, 316 days
38	Achille Silvestrini	Italy	1923	2019	95 years, 308 days
39	Joseph Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI	Italy	1927	2022	95 years, 279 days
40	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	1929	Alive	95 years, 326 days
41	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	1929	Alive	95 years, 306 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, 47 days
47	Corrado Ursi	Italy	1908	2003	95 years, 34 days
48	Jorge Medina	Chile	1926	2021	94 years, 284 days
49	Julijans Vaivods	–Latvia	1895	1990	94 years, 279 days
50	Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	1873	1968	94 years, 261 days
51	Louis-Albert Vachon	Canada	1912	2006	94 years, 237 days
52	Egano Righi-Lambertini	Italy	1906	2000	94 years, 225 days
53	Angelo Sodano	Italy	1927	2022	94 years, 205 days
54	Adam Maida	United States	1930	Alive	94 years, 253 days
55	Julian Herranz Casado	Spain	1930	Alive	94 years, 240 days
56	Gilberto Agustoni	Italy	1922	2017	94 years, 171 days
57	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Spain	1927	2021	94 years, 142 days
58	Giovanni Cheli	Italy	1918	2013	94 years 122 days
59	Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1902	1997	94 years, 121 days
60	Theodore McCarrick	United States	1930	alive	94 years, 142 days
61	Giuseppe Sensi	Italy	1907	2001	94 years, 60 days
62	Paul Poupard	France	1930	Alive	94 years, 88 days
63	Salvatore De Giorgi	Italy	1930	Alive	94 years, 81 days
64	Marian Jaworski	Poland	1926	2020	94 years 13 days
65	Carlo Furno	Italy	1921	2015	94 years, 7 days
66	Prosper Grech, O.S.A.	Malta	1925	2019	94 years, 6 days
67	Roberto Tucci	Italy	1921	2015	93 years, 360 days
68	Georges Cottier OP	Switzerland	1922	2016	93 years, 341 days
69	John Carberry	United States	1904	1998	93 years, 321 days
69	Janis Pujats	Latvia	1930	Alive	94 years, 12 days
71	Paolo Bertoli	Italy	1908	2001	93 years, 280 days
72	Thomas Williams	United States	1930	2023	93 years. 276 days
73	Opilio Rossi	United States	1910	2004	93 years, 271 days
74	Camillo Ruini	Italy	1931	Alive	93 years, 281 days
75	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	1836	1930	93 years, 216 days
76	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Spain	1926	2019	93 years, 201 days
77	Jean Margéot	Mauritius	1916	2009	93 years, 164 days
78	Teodolfo Mertel	Papal States	1806	1899	93 years, 152 days
79	Gioacchino Pecci	French Empire	1810	1903	93 years, 140 days
	Simon Pimenta	India	1920	2013
81	Lucian Mureșan	Romania	1931	Alive	93 years, 187 days
82	František Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	1899	1992	93 years, 36 days
83	Alfredo Scherer	Brazil	1903	1996	93 years, 34 days
84	Antonio Innocenti	Italy	1915	2008	93 years, 21 days
85	Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	1877	1970	93 years, 19 days
86	James Francis McIntyre	United States	1886	1979	93 years, 14 days
87	Carlo Confalonieri	Italy	1893	1986	93 years, 7 days
88	Alessandro Verde	Italy	1865	1958	93 years, 2 days
89	Julien Ries	Belgium	1920	2013	92 years, 310 days
90	Juan Carlos Aramburu	Argentina	1912	2004	92 years, 281 days
91	Sergio Sebastiani	Italy	1931	2024	92 years, 280 days
92	José Saraiva Martins C.M.F.	Portugal	1932	Alive	92 years, 325 days
93	Joseph Zen S.D.B.	China ( Hong Kong)	1932	Alive	92 years, 318 days
94	Paolo Giobbe	Italy	1880	1972	92 years, 217 days
95	Josyf Slipyj	Ukraine	1892	1984	92 years, 203 days
	Léon-Étienne Duval	Algeria	1903	1996
97	Jean Honoré	France	1920	2013	92 years, 199 days
98	Joseph Asajirō Satowaki	Japan	1904	1996	92 years, 189 days
99	José María Caro Rodríguez	Chile	1866	1958	92 years, 164 days
100	Luigi Poggi	Italy	1917	2010	92 years, 160 days

Next to Join

No.	Cardinal	Co.	Birth	Death	Age	Age by 12-31-24
1	James Stafford	United States	1932	Alive	92 years, 123 days	92 years, 158 days
2	Gaudencio Rosales	Philippines	1932	Alive	92 years, 108 days	92 years, 143 days
3	Francis Arinze	Nigeria	1932	Alive	92 years, 25 days	92 years, 60 days
4	Renato Martino	Italy	1932	Alive	92 years, 3 days	92 years, 38 days
5	Walter Kasper	Germany	1933	Alive	91 years, 266 days	91 years, 301 days
6	Juan Sandoval Íñiguez	Mexico	1933	Alive	91 years, 243 days	91 years, 278 days
7	Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa Isch	Chile	1933	Alive	91 years, 82 days	91 years, 117 days
8	Raffaele Farina SDB	Italy	1933	Alive	91 years, 63 days	91 years, 98 days
9	Giovanni Battista Re	Italy	1934	Alive	90 years, 301 days	90 years, 336 days
10	Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn	Vietman	1934	Alive	90 years, 266 days	90 years, 301 days

Chronological list of Oldest living members of the College of Cardinals

From	Until	Name	Born	Nationality
??	11 August 1890	John Henry Newman	21 February 1801	England ( United Kingdom)
11 August 1890	11 July 1899	Teodolfo Mertel	9 February 1806	Italy
11 July 1899	12 March 1900	Luigi Di Canossa	20 April 1809
12 March 1900	14 April 1904	Michelangelo Celesia	13 January 1814
14 April 1900	27 January 1908	François-Marie-Benjamin Richard	1 March 1819	France
27 January 1908	5 August 1911	Anton Josef Gruscha	3 November 1820	Italy
5 August 1911	14 November 1912	Alfonso Capecelatro	5 February 1824
14 November 1912	5 December 1914	Angelo di Pierto	22 May 1828
5 December 1914	21 December 1921	François de Rovérié de Cabrières	30 August 1830	France
21 December 1921	4 February 1923	Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco	8 September 1833	Italy
4 February 1923	9 July 1930	Vincenzo Vannutelli	5 December 1836
9 July 1930	9 February 1933	Andreas Frühwirth	21 August 1845	Austria-Hungary
9 February 1933	31 March 1934	Franz Ehrle	17 October 1845	Germany
31 March 1934	15 February 1935	Pierre Andrieu	7 December 1849	France
15 February 1935	16 February 1948	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	10 April 1851	Italy
16 February 1948	4 August 1948	Enrico Sibilia	17 March 1861
4 August 1948	29 March 1958	Alessandro Verde	27 March 1865
29 March 1958	4 December 1958	José María Caro Rodríguez	23 June 1866	Chile
4 December 1958	5 May 1959	Georges Grente	5 May 1872	France
5 May 1959	22 December 1961	Elia dala Costa	14 May 1872	Italy
22 December 1961	12 July 1968	Francesco Morano	8 June 1872	Italy
12 July 1968	31 July 1968	Carlos María de la Torre	15 November 1873	Ecuador
31 July 1968	14 August 1968	Augusto da Silva	8 April 1876	Brazil
14 August 1968	1 August 1970	Giuseppe Pizzardo	13 July 1877	Italy
1 August 1970	30 September 1970	Benedetto Aloisi Masella	29 June 1879
30 September 1970	14 August 1972	Paolo Giobbe	10 January 1880
14 August 1972	29 November 1976	José da Costa Nunes	15 March 1880	Portugal
29 November 1976	5 September 1979	Alberto di Jorio	18 July 1884	Italy
5 September 1979	23 October 1979	Antonio Caggiano	30 January 1889	Argentina
23 October 1979	14 September 1982	Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta	16 July 1890	Brazil
18 September 1982	29 December 1986	Pietro Parente	16 February 1891	Italy
29 December 1986	24 May 1990	Julijans Vaivods	18 August 1895	Latvia
24 May 1990	4 September 1991	Henri de Lubac	20 February 1896	France
4 September 1991	12 July 1993	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli	14 July 1896	Italy
12 July 1993	12 March 2000	Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	2 August 1901	China
12 March 2000	3 February 2005	Corrado Bafile	4 July 1903	Italy
3 February 2005	2 August 2006	Johannes Willebrands	4 September 1909	Netherlands
1 August 2006	12 December 2007	Alfons Maria Stickler	23 August 1910	Austria
12 December 2007	30 April 2010	Paul Augustin Mayer	23 May 1911	Germany
30 April 2010	28 July 2013	Ersilio Tonini	20 July 1914	Italy
2013-07-28	2014-02-22	Fiorenzo Angelini	1916-08-01
2014-02-22	2016-05-26	Loris Francesco Capovilla	1915-10-14
2016-05-26	2019-09-03	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	1919-02-18	Colombia
2019-09-03	2019-09-04	Roger Etchegaray	1922-09-25	/ France
2019-09-04	2021-07-29	Albert Vanhoye	1923-07-24
2021-07-29	2022-08-08	Jozef Tomko	1924-03-11	Chechoslovakia
2022-08-08	2024-09-28	Alexandre do Nascimento	1925-03-01	Angola
2024-09-28	Present	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	1926-02-27	Argentina

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
• Oldest and Longest-lived Cardinals by Country (born post-1800)