List of oldest living catholic prelates

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This is a list of the 100 oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals (in gold those who are Cardinals). The current breakdown of the 100 persons are 8 cardinals and 92 bishops.

Rank Bishop or Cardinal Date of birth Age (years, days) Ordained Priest Consecrated Bishop Country of origin
1 José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra January 1, 1922 103 years, 352 days May 28, 1946 September 8, 1961 Mexico
2 René Henry Gracida June 9, 1923 102 years, 193 days May 23, 1959 January 25, 1972 United States
3 Giuseppe Casale September 28, 1923 102 years, 82 days February 3, 1946 December 8, 1974 Italy
4 Luigi Bettazzi November 26, 1923 102 years, 23 days August 4, 1946 October 4, 1963 Italy
5 Thomas Zhao Duomo 1924 98–99 years 1951 February 17, 2004 China
6 Stanisław Szymecki January 26, 1924 101 years, 327 days July 3, 1947 April 12, 1981 Poland
7 Peter Takaaki Hirayama March 31, 1924 101 years, 263 days March 19, 1957 January 25, 1970 Japan
8 Settimio Todisco May 10, 1924 101 years, 223 days July 27, 1947 February 15, 1970 Italy
9 Daniel Verstraete July 31, 1924 101 years, 141 days February 19, 1950 May 14, 1978 South Africa
10 Manuel Edmilson da Cruz October 3, 1924 101 years, 77 days December 5, 1948 November 6, 1966 Brazil
11 Albert Houssiau November 2, 1924 101 years, 47 days February 6, 1949 May 18, 1986 Belgium
12 Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña November 7, 1924 101 years, 42 days April 1, 1951 February 2, 1983 Spain
13 Victorinus Youn Kong-hi November 8, 1924 101 years, 41 days March 20, 1950 October 20, 1963 South Korea
14 Gaetano Bonicelli December 13, 1924 101 years, 6 days May 22, 1948 August 26, 1975 Italy
15 Alexandre do Nascimento March 1, 1925 100 years, 293 days December 20, 1952 August 31, 1975 Angola
16 James Hector MacDonald April 28, 1925 100 years, 235 days June 29, 1953 April 17, 1978 Canada
17 Ernest Bertrand Boland July 10, 1925 100 years, 162 days June 9, 1955 July 25, 1966 United States
18 Angelo Acerbi September 23, 1925 100 years, 87 days March 27, 1948 June 30, 1974 Italy
19 Jacques de Saint-Blanquat November 21, 1925 100 years, 28 days March 29, 1952 October 5, 1975 France
20 John R. Gorman December 11, 1925 100 years, 8 days May 1, 1956 April 11, 1988 United States
21 Estanislao Esteban Karlic February 7, 1926 99 years, 315 days December 8, 1954 August 15, 1977 Argentina
22 Maurice Taylor May 5, 1926 99 years, 228 days July 2, 1950 June 9, 1981 United Kingdom
23 Walter Ivan de Azevedo May 8, 1926 99 years, 225 days December 8, 1953 July 27, 1986 Brazil
24 Hildebrando Mendes Costa June 16, 1926 99 years, 186 days December 2, 1951 May 24, 1981 Brazil
25 Emanuele Catarinicchia July 12, 1926 99 years, 160 days April 2, 1949 December 17, 1978 Italy
26 Heitor de Araújo Sales July 29, 1926 99 years, 143 days December 3, 1950 June 16, 1978 Brazil
27 Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto August 11, 1926 99 years, 130 days December 6, 1950 August 28, 1966 Brazil
28 Raúl Holguer López Mayorga August 24, 1926 99 years, 117 days June 29, 1951 April 29, 1973 Ecuador
29 Gilbert Sheldon September 20, 1926 99 years, 90 days February 28, 1953 June 11, 1976 United States
30 Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi November 21, 1926 99 years, 28 days December 17, 1950 December 10, 1982 Italy
31 Emmanuel Wamala December 15, 1926 99 years, 4 days December 21, 1957 November 22, 1981 Uganda
32 Michael Pak Jeong-il December 18, 1926 99 years, 1 day November 23, 1958 May 31, 1977 South Korea
33 Paolo Magnani December 31, 1926 98 years, 353 days June 29, 1951 September 10, 1977 Italy
34 Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol January 25, 1927 98 years, 328 days August 22, 1953 January 6, 1984 South Korea
35 Julian Wojtkowski January 31, 1927 98 years, 322 days June 25, 1950 August 22, 1969 Poland
36 / 37 Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno February 14, 1927 98 years, 308 days June 29, 1953 March 3, 1990 Ecuador
Gilberto Pereira Lopes December 14, 1949 December 18, 1969 Brazil
38 Dominic Anthony Marconi March 13, 1927 98 years, 281 days May 30, 1953 June 25, 1976 United States
39 Joseph Pallikaparampil April 10, 1927 98 years, 253 days November 23, 1958 August 15, 1973 India
40 José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui May 20, 1927 98 years, 213 days November 20, 1949 October 25, 1977 Colombia
41 Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral May 25, 1927 98 years, 208 days December 8, 1954 April 20, 1975 Brazil
42 Joseph Martin Sartoris July 1, 1927 98 years, 171 days May 30, 1953 March 19, 1994 United States
43 Alberto Tricarico August 10, 1927 98 years, 131 days January 6, 1950 April 27, 1987 Italy
44 Kazimierz Romaniuk August 21, 1927 98 years, 120 days December 16, 1951 March 4, 1982 Poland
45 Edoardo Rovida August 26, 1927 98 years, 115 days June 29, 1950 October 10, 1971 Italy
46 Abraham Than September 21, 1927 98 years, 89 days September 22, 1957 May 11, 1969 Myanmar
47 Raymond E. Goedert October 15, 1927 98 years, 65 days May 1, 1952 August 29, 1991 United States
48 Júlio Duarte Langa October 27, 1927 98 years, 53 days June 9, 1957 October 24, 1976 Mozambique
49 Pierre Trân Thanh Chung November 10, 1927 98 years, 39 days May 25, 1955 November 22, 1981 Vietnam
50 Daniel Cronin November 14, 1927 98 years, 35 days December 20, 1952 September 12, 1968 United States
51 Raymond Razakarinvony November 19, 1927 98 years, 30 days July 27, 1956 May 17, 1998 Madagascar
52 Bernhard Kühnel December 4, 1927 98 years, 15 days August 6, 1955 April 27, 1983 Germany
53 Vincenzo Rimedio December 5, 1927 98 years, 14 days July 22, 1951 October 28, 1982 Italy
54 Giovanni Zerbini December 29, 1927 97 years, 355 days June 29, 1956 February 19, 1995 Italy
55 Friedrich Wetter February 20, 1928 97 years, 302 days October 10, 1953 June 29, 1968 Germany
56 Robert Joseph Banks February 26, 1928 97 years, 296 days December 20, 1952 September 19, 1985 United States
57 Klaus Dick February 27, 1928 97 years, 295 days February 24, 1953 May 19, 1975 Germany
58 John Stephen Cummins March 3, 1928 97 years, 291 days January 24, 1953 May 16, 1974 United States
59 Gerd Dicke March 28, 1928 97 years, 266 days July 25, 1952 February 16, 1970 Germany
60 Alfred Kleinermeilert March 30, 1928 97 years, 264 days October 10, 1953 May 3, 1968 Germany
61 Peter Henrici March 31, 1928 97 years, 263 days July 23, 1958 May 31, 1993 Switzerland
62 Allan Chamgwera April 30, 1928 97 years, 233 days September 7, 1957 May 31, 1981 Malawi
63 Louis Edward Gelineau May 3, 1928 97 years, 230 days June 5, 1953 January 26, 1972 United States
64 Jacques Despierre May 6, 1928 97 years, 227 days June 24, 1952 October 10, 1982 France
65 Pierre Mouallem May 10, 1928 97 years, 223 days November 21, 1955 June 29, 1990 Israel
66 Daniel Patrick Reilly May 12, 1928 97 years, 221 days May 30, 1953 August 6, 1975 United States
67 Charles Louis Joseph Vandame June 4, 1928 97 years, 198 days September 7, 1960 January 6, 1982 Chad
68 Alphonsus Mathias June 22, 1928 97 years, 180 days August 24, 1954 February 5, 1964 India
69 Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân June 24, 1928 97 years, 178 days September 2, 1955 April 30, 1975 Vietnam
70 Maurice Fréchard July 3, 1928 97 years, 169 days July 3, 1955 October 27, 1996 France
71 Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque July 24, 1928 97 years, 148 days December 8, 1953 May 5, 1985 Brazil
72 Philippe Bär July 29, 1928 97 years, 143 days July 26, 1959 March 20, 1982 Netherlands
73 Ignacio Trejos Picado July 31, 1928 97 years, 141 days March 8, 1952 March 8, 1968 Costa Rica
74 Peter Chung Hoan Ting September 10, 1928 97 years, 100 days September 26, 1954 November 15, 1970 Malaysia
75 Joseph John Gerry September 12, 1928 97 years, 98 days June 12, 1954 April 21, 1986 United States
76 Giuseppe Germano Bernardini September 27, 1928 97 years, 83 days March 21, 1953 April 9, 1983 Türkiye
77 Owen Dolan September 30, 1928 97 years, 80 days July 21, 1954 December 10, 1995 New Zealand
78 István Katona October 3, 1928 97 years, 77 days June 7, 1953 December 9, 1989 Hungary
79 Francisco Barroso Filho October 8, 1928 97 years, 72 days December 1, 1957 March 19, 1984 Brazil
80 Ernest Simoni October 18, 1928 97 years, 62 days April 7, 1956 Albania
81 Lucas Liu Hsien-tang December 21, 1928 96 years, 363 days November 30, 1956 January 1, 1981 Taiwan
82 Adam Exner December 24, 1928 96 years, 360 days July 7, 1957 March 12, 1974 Canada
83 Anton Pain Ratu January 2, 1929 96 years, 351 days August 17, 1958 September 21, 1982 Indonesia
84 Walter Brandmüller January 5, 1929 96 years, 348 days July 26, 1953 November 13, 2010 Germany
85 Melchior Shi Hongzhen January 7, 1929 96 years, 346 days July 4, 1954 June 15, 1982 China
86 Fritz Lobinger January 22, 1929 96 years, 331 days June 29, 1955 February 27, 1988 Germany
87 / 88 Adalberto Paulo da Silva January 25, 1929 96 years, 328 days December 8, 1956 August 3, 1975 Brazil
Michael Michai Kitbunchu December 20, 1959 June 3, 1973 Thailand
89 Edgerton Roland Clarke February 14, 1929 96 years, 308 days February 2, 1960 November 30, 1967 Jamaica
90 Jorge Bernal Vargas February 28, 1929 96 years, 294 days September 15, 1957 March 19, 1974 Mexico
91 Leo Nowak March 17, 1929 96 years, 277 days May 10, 1956 March 24, 1990 Germany
92 Georges Gilson May 30, 1929 96 years, 203 days April 20, 1957 October 9, 1976 France
93 Pier Giuliano Tiddia June 13, 1929 96 years, 189 days December 16, 1951 February 2, 1975 Italy
94 Paolo Gillet July 8, 1929 96 years, 164 days September 19, 1953 January 6, 1994 Italy
95 René Dupont September 2, 1929 96 years, 108 days June 29, 1953 July 25, 1969 France
96 Patricio Infante Alfonso October 9, 1929 96 years, 71 days June 28, 1953 September 23, 1984 Chile
97 Angelo Mascheroni October 13, 1929 96 years, 67 days June 13, 1952 June 24, 1990 Italy
98 Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez October 18, 1929 96 years, 62 days June 25, 1955 March 19, 1970 Cuba
99 Antônio de Souza October 21, 1929 96 years, 59 days July 1, 1956 April 16, 1974 Brazil
100 Vincenzo Zarri October 23, 1929 96 years, 57 days July 25, 1952 June 29, 1976 Italy