List of oldest living catholic prelates
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. Bold on gold are Currently living Cardinals.
List
| 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 | 104 years, 30 days | May 28, 1946 | September 8, 1961 | Mexico |
| 2 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | 102 years, 236 days | May 23, 1959 | January 25, 1972 | United States |
| 3 | Stanisław Szymecki | January 26, 1924 | 102 years, 5 days | July 3, 1947 | April 12, 1981 | Poland |
| 4 | Settimio T5odisco | May 10, 1924 | 101 years, 266 days | July 27, 1947 | February 15, 1970 | Italy |
| 5 | Daniel Vers5traete | July 31, 1924 | 101 years, 184 days | February 19, 1950 | May 14, 1978 | South Africa |
| 6 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | 101 years, 120 days | December 5, 1948 | November 6, 1966 | Brazil |
| 7 | Albert Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | 101 years, 90 days | February 6, 1949 | May 18, 1986 | Belgium |
| 8 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | 101 years, 85 days | April 1, 1951 | February 2, 1983 | Spain |
| 9 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | 101 years, 84 days | March 20, 1950 | October 20, 1963 | South Korea |
| 10 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | 101 years, 49 days | May 22, 1948 | August 26, 1975 | Italy |
| 3-11 | Thomas Zhao Duomo | 1924 | 101 years, 31 days to 102 years, 30 days | 1951 | February 17, 2004 | China |
| 12 | Alexandre do Nascimento | March 1, 1925 | 100 years, 336 days | December 20, 1952 | August 31, 1975 | Angola |
| 13 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | 100 years, 278 days | June 29, 1953 | April 17, 1978 | Canada |
| 14 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | 100 years, 130 days | March 27, 1948 | June 30, 1974 | Italy |
| 15 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | 100 years, 71 days | March 29, 1952 | October 5, 1975 | France |
| 16 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | 100 years, 51 days | May 1, 1956 | April 11, 1988 | United States |
| 17 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic' | February 7, 1926 | 99 years, 358 days | December 8, 1954 | August 15, 1977 | Argentina |
| 18 | Walter Ivan de Azevedo | May 8, 1926 | 99 years, 268 days | December 8, 1953 | July 27, 1986 | Brazil |
| 19 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | 99 years, 229 days | December 2, 1951 | May 24, 1981 | Brazil |
| 20 | Emanuele Catarinicchia | July 12, 1926 | 99 years, 203 days | April 2, 1949 | December 17, 1978 | Italy |
| 21 | Heitor de Araújo Sales | July 29, 1926 | 99 years, 186 days | December 3, 1950 | June 16, 1978 | Brazil |
| 22 | Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | August 11, 1926 | 99 years, 173 days | December 6, 1950 | August 28, 1966 | Brazil |
| 23 | Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | August 24, 1926 | 99 years, 160 days | June 29, 1951 | April 29, 1973 | Ecuador |
| 24 | Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi | November 21, 1926 | 99 years, 71 days | December 17, 1950 | December 10, 1982 | Italy |
| 25 | Emmanuel Wamala | December 15, 1926 | 99 years, 47 days | December 21, 1957 | November 22, 1981 | Uganda |
| 26 | Michael Pak Jeong-il | December 18, 1926 | 99 years, 44 days | November 23, 1958 | May 31, 1977 | South Korea |
| 27 | Paolo Magnani | December 31, 1926 | 99 years, 31 days | June 29, 1951 | September 10, 1977 | Italy |
| 28 | Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | January 25, 1927 | 99 years, 6 days | August 22, 1953 | January 6, 1984 | South Korea |
| 29 | Julian Wojtkowski | January 31, 1927 | 99 years, 0 days | June 25, 1950 | August 22, 1969 | Poland |
| 30 | Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno | February 14, 1927 | 98 years, 351 days | June 29, 1953 | March 3, 1990 | Ecuador |
| Gilberto Pereira Lopes | December 14, 1949 | December 18, 1969 | Brazil | |||
| 32 | Dominic Anthony Marconi | March 13, 1927 | 98 years, 324 days | May 30, 1953 | June 25, 1976 | United States |
| 33 | Joseph Pallikaparampil | April 10, 1927 | 98 years, 296 days | November 23, 1958 | August 15, 1973 | India |
| 34 | José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui | May 20, 1927 | 98 years, 256 days | November 20, 1949 | October 25, 1977 | Colombia |
| 35 | Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral | May 25, 1927 | 98 years, 251 days | December 8, 1954 | April 20, 1975 | Brazil |
| 36 | Joseph Martin Sartoris | July 1, 1927 | 98 years, 214 days | May 30, 1953 | March 19, 1994 | United States |
| 37 | Alberto Tricarico | August 10, 1927 | 98 years, 174 days | January 6, 1950 | April 27, 1987 | Italy |
| 38 | Kazimierz Romaniuk | August 21, 1927 | 98 years, 163 days | December 16, 1951 | March 4, 1982 | Poland |
| 39 | Edoardo Rovida | August 26, 1927 | 98 years, 158 days | June 29, 1950 | October 10, 1971 | Italy |
| 40 | Abraham Than | September 21, 1927 | 98 years, 132 days | September 22, 1957 | May 11, 1969 | Myanmar |
| 41 | Raymond E. Goedert | October 15, 1927 | 98 years, 108 days | May 1, 1952 | August 29, 1991 | United States |
| 42 | Júlio Duarte Langa | October 27, 1927 | 98 years, 96 days | June 9, 1957 | October 24, 1976 | Mozambique |
| 43 | Pierre Trân Thanh Chung | November 10, 1927 | 98 years, 82 days | May 25, 1955 | November 22, 1981 | Vietnam |
| 44 | Daniel Cronin | November 14, 1927 | 98 years, 78 days | December 20, 1952 | September 12, 1968 | United States |
| 45 | Raymond Razakarinvony | November 19, 1927 | 98 years, 73 days | July 27, 1956 | May 17, 1998 | Madagascar |
| 46 | Bernhard Kühnel | December 4, 1927 | 98 years, 58 days | August 6, 1955 | April 27, 1983 | Germany |
| 47 | Vincenzo Rimedio | December 5, 1927 | 98 years, 57 days | July 22, 1951 | October 28, 1982 | Italy |
| 48 | Giovanni Zerbini | December 29, 1927 | 98 years, 33 days | June 29, 1956 | February 19, 1995 | Italy |
| 49 | Friedrich Wetter | February 20, 1928 | 97 years, 345 days | October 10, 1953 | June 29, 1968 | Germany |
| 50 | Robert Joseph Banks | February 26, 1928 | 97 years, 339 days | December 20, 1952 | September 19, 1985 | United States |
| 51 | Klaus Dick | February 27, 1928 | 97 years, 338 days | February 24, 1953 | May 19, 1975 | Germany |
| 52 | John Stephen Cummins | March 3, 1928 | 97 years, 334 days | January 24, 1953 | May 16, 1974 | United States |
| 53 | Gerd Dicke | March 28, 1928 | 97 years, 309 days | July 25, 1952 | February 16, 1970 | Germany |
| 54 | Alfred Kleinermeilert | March 30, 1928 | 97 years, 307 days | October 10, 1953 | May 3, 1968 | Germany |
| 55 | Allan Chamgwera | April 30, 1928 | 97 years, 276 days | September 7, 1957 | May 31, 1981 | Malawi |
| 56 | Louis Edward Gelineau | May 3, 1928 | 97 years, 273 days | June 5, 1953 | January 26, 1972 | United States |
| 57 | Jacques Despierre | May 6, 1928 | 97 years, 270 days | June 24, 1952 | October 10, 1982 | France |
| 58 | Pierre Mouallem | May 10, 1928 | 97 years, 266 days | November 21, 1955 | June 29, 1990 | Israel |
| 59 | Daniel Patrick Reilly | May 12, 1928 | 97 years, 264 days | May 30, 1953 | August 6, 1975 | United States |
| 60 | Charles Louis Joseph Vandame | June 4, 1928 | 97 years, 241 days | September 7, 1960 | January 6, 1982 | Chad |
| 61 | Alphonsus Mathias | June 22, 1928 | 97 years, 223 days | August 24, 1954 | February 5, 1964 | India |
| 62 | Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân | June 24, 1928 | 97 years, 221 days | September 2, 1955 | April 30, 1975 | Vietnam |
| 63 | Maurice Fréchard | July 3, 1928 | 97 years, 212 days | July 3, 1955 | October 27, 1996 | France |
| 64 | Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque | July 24, 1928 | 97 years, 191 days | December 8, 1953 | May 5, 1985 | Brazil |
| 65 | Philippe Bär | July 29, 1928 | 97 years, 186 days | July 26, 1959 | March 20, 1982 | Netherlands |
| 66 | Ignacio Trejos Picado | July 31, 1928 | 97 years, 184 days | March 8, 1952 | March 8, 1968 | Costa Rica |
| 67 | Peter Chung Hoan Ting | September 10, 1928 | 97 years, 143 days | September 26, 1954 | November 15, 1970 | Malaysia |
| 68 | Giuseppe Germano Bernardini | September 27, 1928 | 97 years, 126 days | March 21, 1953 | April 9, 1983 | Türkiye |
| 69 | Owen Dolan | September 30, 1928 | 97 years, 123 days | July 21, 1954 | December 10, 1995 | New Zealand |
| 70 | István Katona | October 3, 1928 | 97 years, 120 days | June 7, 1953 | December 9, 1989 | Hungary |
| 71 | Francisco Barroso Filho | October 8, 1928 | 97 years, 115 days | December 1, 1957 | March 19, 1984 | Brazil |
| 72 | Ernest Simoni | October 18, 1928 | 97 years, 105 days | April 7, 1956 | Albania | |
| 73 | Lucas Liu Hsien-tang | December 21, 1928 | 97 years, 41 days | November 30, 1956 | January 1, 1981 | Taiwan |
| 74 | Adam Exner | December 24, 1928 | 97 years, 38 days | July 7, 1957 | March 12, 1974 | Canada |
| 75 | Anton Pain Ratu | January 2, 1929 | 97 years, 29 days | August 17, 1958 | September 21, 1982 | Indonesia |
| 76 | Walter Brandmüller | January 5, 1929 | 97 years, 26 days | July 26, 1953 | November 13, 2010 | Germany |
| 77 | Melchior Shi Hongzhen | January 7, 1929 | 97 years, 24 days | July 4, 1954 | June 15, 1982 | China |
| 78 | Fritz Lobinger | January 22, 1929 | 97 years, 9 days | June 29, 1955 | February 27, 1988 | Germany |
| 79 | Adalberto Paulo da Silva | January 25, 1929 | 97 years, 6 days | December 8, 1956 | August 3, 1975 | Brazil |
| Michael Michai Kitbunchu | December 20, 1959 | June 3, 1973 | Thailand | |||
| 81 | Edgerton Roland Clarke | February 14, 1929 | 96 years, 351 days | February 2, 1960 | November 30, 1967 | Jamaica |
| 82 | Leo Nowak | March 17, 1929 | 96 years, 320 days | May 10, 1956 | March 24, 1990 | Germany |
| 83 | Georges Gilson | May 30, 1929 | 96 years, 246 days | April 20, 1957 | October 9, 1976 | France |
| 84 | Pier Giuliano Tiddia | June 13, 1929 | 96 years, 232 days | December 16, 1951 | February 2, 1975 | Italy |
| 85 | Paolo Gillet | July 8, 1929 | 96 years, 207 days | September 19, 1953 | January 6, 1994 | Italy |
| 86 | René Dupont | September 2, 1929 | 96 years, 151 days | June 29, 1953 | July 25, 1969 | France |
| 87 | Patricio Infante Alfonso | October 9, 1929 | 96 years, 114 days | June 28, 1953 | September 23, 1984 | Chile |
| 88 | Angelo Mascheroni | October 13, 1929 | 96 years, 110 days | June 13, 1952 | June 24, 1990 | Italy |
| 89 | Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez | October 18, 1929 | 96 years, 105 days | June 25, 1955 | March 19, 1970 | Cuba |
| 90 | Antônio de Souza | October 21, 1929 | 96 years, 102 days | July 1, 1956 | April 16, 1974 | Brazil |
| 91 | Vincenzo Zarri | October 23, 1929 | 96 years, 100 days | July 25, 1952 | June 29, 1976 | Italy |
| 92 | Paul-Marie Gillaume | October 31, 1929 | 96 years, 92 days | April 9, 1955 | December 9, 1984 | France |
| 93 | Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal | December 2, 1929 | 96 years, 60 days | August 17, 1958 | September 8, 1972 | Colombia |
| 94 | José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle | December 3, 1929 | 96 years, 59 days | January 10, 1954 | July 23, 1982 | Brazil |
| 95 | Ramón Buxarrais Ventura | December 12, 1929 | 96 years, 50 days | December 17, 1955 | October 3, 1971 | Spain |
| 96 | Jean-Charles Thomas | Decemberber 16, 1929 | 96 years, 46 days | July 5, 1953 | May 1, 1972 | France |
| 97 | Victorio Oliver Domingo | December 23, 1929 | 96 years, 39 days | June 27, 1954 | October 12, 1972 | Spain |
| 98 | Thomas Gumbleton | January 26, 1930 | 96 years, 5 days | June 2, 1956 | May 1, 1968 | United States |
| 99 | Miguel Caviedes | January 30, 1930 | 96 years, 1 day | September 18, 1954 | December 19, 1982 | Chile |
| 100 | Jean Bonfils | February 15, 1930 | 95 years, 350 days | December 7, 1954 | January 10, 1993 | France |