Past longest-living cardinals
as of 2008-11-28
| Rank | Cardinal | Country | Born | Died | Age | Replacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corrado Bafile | Italy | 1903.07.04 | 2005.02.03 | 101 years, 214 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 2 | Loris Francesco Capovilla | Italy | 1915.10.14 | 2016.05.26 | 100 years, 224 days | 2014.02.22
von Häffelin |
| 3 | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez | Italy | 1919.02.18 | 2019.09.03 | 100 years, 197 days | 2015.02.14
Cicongani |
| 4 | Luigi Ciacchi | Italy | 1765.08.16 | 1865.12.17 | 100 years, 123 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 5 | Alexandre do Nascimento | Angola | 1925.03.01 | Alive | 99 years, 272 days | 2016.02.11
Albizzi |
| 6 | Ersilio Tonini | Italy | 1914.07.20 | 2013.07.28 | 99 years, 8 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 7 | Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir | Lebanon | 1920.05.15 | 2019.05.12 | 98 years, 362 days | 2010.01.24
Goicoechea |
| 8 | Galeazzo Marescotti | Italy | 1627.10.01 | 1726.07.03 | 98 years, 275 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 9 | Jean-Baptist de Belloy | France | 1709.10.09 | 1808.06.10 | 98 years, 245 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 10 | Jozef Tomko | Slovakia | 1924.03.11 | 2022.08.08 | 98 years 150 days | 2012.12.02
Caggiano |
| 11 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | Argentina | 1926.02.07 | Alive | 98 years, 295 days | 2017.05.11
Aloisi Masella |
| 12 | Fiorenzo Angelini | Italy | 1916.08.01 | 2014.11.22 | 98 years, 113 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 13 | Albert Vanhoye, SJ | France | 1923.07.24 | 2021.07.29 | 98 years, 5 days | 2014.01.23
Sabattani |
| 14 | Alexandre José María dos Santos, O.F.M. | Mozambique | 1924.03.18 | 2021.09.29 | 97 years, 195 days | 2014.12.18
Gruscha |
| 15 | Emmanuel Wamala | Uganda | 1926.12.15 | Alive | 97 years, 349 days | 2018.06.27
Silva Henríquez |
| 16 | Alfons Maria Stickler | Austria | 1910.08.23 | 2007.12.12 | 97 years, 111 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 17 | Luis Pascual Dri OFM Cap. | Argentina | 1927.04.17 | Alive | 97 years, 225 days | 2023.09.30
Poggi |
| 19 | Henryk Gulbinowicz | Poland | 1923.10.17 | 2020.11.16 | 97 years, 30 days | 2014.05.29
Cavalchini |
| 20 | Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M. | Italy | 1896.07.14 | 1993.07.12 | 96 years, 363 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 21 | Roger Etchegaray | France | 1922.09.25 | 2019.09.04 | 96 years, 344 days | 2013.03.16
G. Oddi |
| 22 | Johannes Willebrands | Netherlands | 1909.09.04 | 2008.08.02 | 96 years, 331 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 23 | Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | Italy | 1851.04.10 | 1948.02.16 | 96 years, 312 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 24 | Edward Cassidy | Australia | 1924.07.05 | 2021.04.10 | 96 years, 279 days | 2015.05.27
di Canossa |
| 25 | Kazimierz Świątek | Belgium | 1914.10.21 | 2011.07.21 | 96 years, 273 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 26 | José da Costa Nuñes | Portugal | 1880.03.15 | 1976.11.29 | 96 years, 259 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 27 | Giovanni Canestri | Italy | 1918.09.30 | 2006.04.29 | 96 years, 211 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 28 | Domenico Bartolucci | Italy | 1917.05.17 | 2013.11.11 | 96 years, 188 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 29 | Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. | Zambia | 1911.04.01 | 2007.09.28 | 96 years, 180 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 30 | Francisco Álvarez Martínez | Spain | 1925.07.14 | 2022.01.05 | 96 years, 175 days | 2016.07.05
Alameda y Brea |
| 31 | Francesco Carafa di Trajetto | Italy | 1722.04.29 | 1818.09.20 | 96 years, 144 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 32 | Mikel Koliqi | Albania | 1900.09.29 | 1997.01.28 | 96 years, 121 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 33 | Friedrich Wetter | Germany | 1928.02.28 | Alive | 96 years, 274 days | 2020.01.06
Mejia |
| 34 | Francesco Morano | italy | 1872.06.08 | 1968.07.12 | 96 years, 34 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 35 | Luigi De Magistris | Italy | 1926.02.23 | 2022.02.16 | 95 years 358 days | 2017.06.10
D'Elci |
| 36 | José Freire Falcão | Brazil | 1925.10.23 | 2021.09.26 | 95 years, 338 days | 2016.10.02
Muñoz Vega |
| 37 | Pietro Parente | Italy | 1891.02.16 | 1986.12.29 | 95 years, 316 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 38 | Achille Silvestrini | Italy | 1923.10.25 | 2019.08.29 | 95 years, 308 days | 2014.06.09
S. Oddi |
| 39 | Joseph Ratzinger
(later Pope Benedict XVI) |
Germany | 1927.04.16 | 2022.12.31 | 95 years, 279 days | 2018.12.20
Nagy |
| 40 | Ernest Simoni | Albania | 1928.10.18 | Alive | 96 years, 41 days | 2020.08.27
Frings |
| 41 | Agostino Cacciavillan | Italy | 1926.08.14 | 2022.03.05 | 95 years, 204 days | 2017.12.05
Rovérié de Cabrières |
| 42 | Henri de Lubac S.J. | France | 1896.02.20 | 1991.09.04 | 95 years, 196 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 43 | Walter Brandmüller | Germany | 1929.01.05 | Alive | 95 years, 328 days | 2020.11.18
Sanchez |
| 44 | Michael Michai Kitbunchu | Thailand | 1929.01.25 | Alive | 95 years, 308 days | 2021.03.28
Vasconcellos Motta |
| 45 | Paulo Evaristo Arns | Brazil | 1921.09.14 | 2016.12.14 | 95 years, 91 days | 2011.11.25
Billiet |
| 46 | Serafim Fernandes de Araújo | Brazil | 1924.08.13 | 2019.10.08 | 95 years, 56 days | 2015.07.13
Carpio |
| 47 | Alberto Di Jorio | Italy | 1884.07.18 | 1979.09.05 | 95 years, 49 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 48 | Corrado Ursi | Italy | 1908.07.26 | 2003.08.29 | 95 years, 34 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 49 | Jorge Medina | Chile | 1926.12.23 | 2021.10.03 | 94 years, 284 days | 2018.07.10
Pla y Deniel |
| 50 | Julijans Vaivods | Latvia | 1895.08.18 | 1990.05.24 | 94 years, 279 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 51 | Carlos María de la Torre | Ecuador | 1873.11.15 | 1968.07.31 | 94 years, 259 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 52 | Louis-Albert Vachon | Canada | 1912.02.04 | 2006.09.29 | 94 years, 237 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 53 | Egano Righi-Lambertini | Italy | 1906.02.22 | 2000.10.04 | 94 years, 225 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 54 | Angelo Sodano | Italy | 1927.11.23 | 2022.05.27 | 94 years, 205 days | 2019.09.14
Suenens |
| 55 | Pedro Martinez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor(later Antipope Benedict XIII) | France | 1428.11.28 | 1523.05.23 | 94 years, 176 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 56 | Gilberto Agustoni | Italy | 1922.07.26 | 2017.01.22 | 94 years, 171 days | 2011.11.09
Maurer |
| 57 | Eduardo Martínez Somalo | Spain | 1927.03.31 | 2021.08.10 | 94 years, 142 days | 2018.11.30
Sales |
| 58 | Giovanni Cheli | Italy | 1918.10.04 | 2013.02.08 | 94 years 122 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 59 | Adam Maida | United States | 1930.03.18 | Alive | 94 years, 255 days | 2022.06.10
Lanza di Montezemolo |
| 60 | Julian Herranz Casado | Spain | 1930.03.31 | Alive | 94 years, 242 days | 2022.07.04
Garrone |
| 61 | Giuseppe Sensi | Italy | 1907.05.27 | 2001.07.26 | 94 years, 60 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 62 | Marian Jaworski | Poland | 1926.08.21 | 2020.09.05 | 94 years 13 days | 2017.12.17
Pavan |
| 63 | Carlo Furno | Italy | 1921.12.02 | 2015.12.09 | 94 years, 7 days | 2012.02.26
Miranda y Gómez |
| 64 | Prosper Grech, O.S.A. | Malta | 1925.12.24 | 2019.12.30 | 94 years, 6 days | 2017.01.16
O'Boyle |
| 65 | Roberto Tucci | Italy | 1921.04.19 | 2015.04.14 | 93 years, 360 days | 2011.05.20
Macchi |
| 66 | Georges Cottier OP | Switzerland | 1922.04.25 | 2016.03.31 | 93 years, 341 days | 2012.07.26
Celesia |
| 67 | John Carberry | United States | 1904.07.31 | 1998..06.17 | 93 years, 321 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 68 | Paul Poupard | France | 1930.08.30 | Alive | 94 years, 90 days | 2022.12.29
Obando y Bravo |
| 69 | Salvatore De Giorgi | Italy | 1930.09.06 | Alive | 94 years, 83 days | 2023.01.12
da Silva |
| 70 | Paolo Bertoli | Italy | 1908.02.01 | 2001.11.08 | 93 years, 280 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 71 | Thomas Williams | United States | 1930.03.20 | 2023.12.22 | 93 years. 276 days | 2022.06.19
Daly |
| 72 | Opilio Rossi | United States | 1910.05.14 | 2004.02.09 | 93 years, 271 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 73 | Henri Albert de la Grange d'Arquien | France | 1613.09.08 | 1707.05.24 | 93 years, 258 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 74 | Janis Pujats | Latvia | 1930.11.14 | Alive | 94 years, 14 days | 2023.03.24
Casoria |
| 75 | Vincenzo Vannutelli | Italy | 1836.12.05 | 1930.07.09 | 93 years, 216 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 76 | José Manuel Estepa Llaurens | Spain | 1926.01.01 | 2019.07.21 | 93 years, 201 days | 2017.01.29
Carter |
| 77 | Giuseppe Firrao | Italy | 1736.07.20 | 1830.01.24 | 93 years, 188 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 78 | Jean Margéot | Mauritius | 1916.02.03 | 2009.07.17 | 93 years, 164 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 79 | Teodolfo Mertel | Italy | 1806.02.09 | 1899.17.11 | 93 years, 152 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 80 | Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci(later Pope Leo XIII) | Italy | 1810.03.02 | 1903.07.20 | 93 years, 140 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 81 | Simon Pimenta | Italy | 1920.03.01 | 2013.02.19 | 2009.11.08
Phạm Đình Tụng | |
| 82 | Camillo Ruini | Italy | 1931.02.19 | Alive | 93 years, 283 days | 2023.07.04
Feltin |
| 83 | František Tomášek | Czechoslovakia | 1899.06.30 | 1992.08.04 | 93 years, 35 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 84 | Alfredo Scherer | Brazil | 1903.02.05 | 1996.03.09 | 93 years, 33 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 85 | Lucian Mureșan | Romania | 1931.05.23 | Alive | 93 years, 189 days | 2023.11.03
Caro Rodriguez |
| 86 | Giuseppe Pizzardo | Italy | 1877.07.13 | 1970.08.01 | 93 years, 19 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 87 | James Francis McIntyre | United States | 1886.06.25 | 1979.07.16 | 93 years, 14 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 88 | Carlo Confalonieri | Italy | 1893.07.25 | 1986.08.01 | 93 years, 7 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 89 | Alessandro Verde | Italy | 1865.03.27 | 1958.03.29 | 93 years, 2 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 90 | Branda da Castiglione | Italy | 1350.02.04 | 1443.02.03 | 92 years, 364 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 91 | Julien Ries | Belgium | 1920.04.19 | 2013.02.23 | 92 years, 310 days | 2010.01.18
Marty |
| 92 | Juan Carlos Aramburu | Argentina | 1912.02.11 | 2004.11.18 | 92 years, 281 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 93 | Sergio Sebastiani | Italy | 1931.04.11 | 2024.01.16 | 92 years, 280 days | 2023.08.23
Piovanelli |
| 94 | Paolo Giobbe | Italy | 1880.01.10 | 1972.08.14 | 92 years, 217 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 95 | Josyf Slipyj | Ukraine | 1892.02.17 | 1984.09.07 | 92 years, 203 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Léon-Étienne Duval | Algeria | 1903.11.09 | 1996.05.30 | 2008.11.28 | ||
| 97 | Jean Honoré | France | 1920.08.13 | 2013.02.28 | 92 years, 199 days | 2010.07.17
Gouyon |
| 98 | Joseph Asajirō Satowaki | Japan | 1904.02.01 | 1996.05.08 | 92 years, 189 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 99 | José Saraiva Martins C.M.F. | Portugal | 1932.01.06 | Alive | 92 years, 327 days | 2024.06.14
Poggi |
| 100 | José María Caro Rodríguez | Chile | 1866.06.23 | 1958.12.04 | 92 years, 164 days | 2008.11.28 |
| 1xx | Luigi Poggi | Italy | 1917.11.25 | 2010.05.04 | 92 years, 160 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Cardinal | Country | Born | Died | Age at Death | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luigi Poggi | Italy | 1917.11.25 | 2010.05.04 | 92 years, 160 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Silvano Piovanelli | Italy | 1924.02.21 | 2016.07.09 | 92 years, 139 days | 2014.11.01
Antonetti |
| Maurice Feltin | France | 1883.05.05 | 1975.09.27 | 92 years, 135 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Giuseppe Casoria | Italy | 1908.10.01 | 2001.02.08 | 92 years, 130 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Augusto da Silva | Brazil | 1876.04.13 | 1958.08.14 | 92 years, 128 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B. | Nicaragua | 1926.02.02 | 2018.06.03 | 92 years, 121 days | 2017.04.13
Congar |
| Gabriel-Marie Garrone | France | 1901.10.12 | 1994.11.15 | 92 years, 95 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Cahal Brendan Daly | United Kingdom
(Northern Ireland) |
1917.10.01 | 2009.12.31 | 92 years, 91 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Andrea Lanza di Montezemolo | Italy | 1925.08.27 | 2017.11.19 | 92 years, 84 days | 2016.09.17
Capece Zurlo |
| Carlos Carmelo Vascocellos Motta | Brazil | 1890.07.16 | 1982.09.18 | 92 years, 62 days | 2008.11.28 |
| José Tomás Sánchez | Philippines | 1920.03.17 | 2012.03.09 | 91 years, 358 days | 2009.12.06
Marella |
| Josef Frings | Germany | 1887.02.06 | 1978.12.17 | 91 years, 314 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Jorge María Mejía | Argentina | 1923.01.31 | 2014.12.09 | 91 years, 312 days | 2013.07.31
Navarrete Cortés |
| Leo Jozef Suenens | Belgium | 1904.07.16 | 1996.05.06 | 91 years, 295 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J. | Slovakia | 1924.01.22 | 2015.10.24 | 91 years, 275 days | 2014.09.28
Mercati |
| Stanisław Nagy, S.C.I. | Poland | 1921.09.30 | 2013.06.05 | 91 years, 248 days | 2011.12.19
Frenso |
| Eugênio Sales | Brazil | 1920.11.08 | 2012.07.09 | 91 years, 244 days | 2010.10.25
Todea |
| Enrique Pla y Deniel | Spain | 1876.12.19 | 1968.07.05 | 91 years, 199 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Raúl Silva Henríquez SDB | Chile | 1907.09.27 | 1999.0.09 | 91 years, 194 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Pietro Pavan | Italy | 1903.08.30 | 1994.12.26 | 91 years, 118 days | 2008.11.28 |
| François-Marie de Rovérié de Cabrières | France | 1830.08.30 | 1921.12.21 | 91 years, 113 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Raniero D’Elci | Italy | 1670.03.07 | 1761.06.22 | 91 years, 107 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Benedetto Aloisi Masella | Italy | 1879.06.29 | 1970.09.30 | 91 years, 93 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Yves Congar, O.P. | France | 1904.04.16 | 1995.06.22 | 91 years, 70 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Gerald Emmett Carter | Canada | 1912.03.01 | 2003.04.06 | 91 years, 28 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Patrick Aloysius O’Boyle | United States | 1896.07.18 | 1987.08.10 | 91 years, 23 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.J. | Ecuador | 1903.05.23 | 1994.06.03 | 91 years, 11 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Giuseppe Maria Capece Zurlo, C.R. | Italy | 1711.01.03 | 1801.12.31 | 90 years, 362 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Cirilo de Alameda y Brea, O.F.M. | Spain | 1781.07.09 | 1872.06.30 | 90 years, 357 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Francesco Albizzi | Italy | 1593.10.24 | 1684.10.05 | 90 years, 347 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Giuseppe Caprio | Italy | 1914.11.15 | 2005.10.15 | 90 years, 334 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Luigi Di Canossa | Italy | 1809.04.20 | 1900.03.12 | 90 years, 326 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Amleto Giovanni Cicognani | Italy | 1883.02.24 | 1973.12.17 | 90 years, 296 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Anton Josef Gruscha | Austria | 1820.11.03 | 1911.08.05 | 90 years, 275 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Antonio Caggiano | Italy | 1889.01.30 | 1979.10.23 | 90 years, 266 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Lorenzo Antonetti | Italy | 1922.07.31 | 2013.04.10 | 90 years, 253 days | 2012.11.25
Špidlík |
| Giovanni Mercati | Italy | 1866.12.17 | 1957.08.23 | 90 years, 249 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Silvio Oddi | Italy | 1910.11.14 | 2001.06.29 | 90 years, 227 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini | Italy | 1683.07.28 | 1774.03.07 | 90 years, 224 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Johann Casimir von Häffelin | Austria | 1737.02.03 | 1827.08.27 | 90 years, 205 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Aurelio Sabattani | Italy | 1912.10.18 | 2003.04.19 | 90 years, 183 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Urbano Navarrete Cortés, S.J. | Spain | 1920.05.25 | 2010.11.23 | 90 years, 181 days | 2010.02.20
Dery |
| Giacomo Oddi | Italy | 1679.11.11 | 1770.05.02 | 90 years, 172 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Tomáš Špidlík, S.J. | Czech Republic | 1919.12.17 | 2010.04.16 | 90 years, 117 days | 2008.11.28 |
| José Clemente Maurer, C.Ss.R. | Bolivia | 1900.03.13 | 1990.06.13 | 90 years, 106 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Michelangelo Celesia, O.S.B. Cas. | Italy | 1814.01.13 | 1904.04.14 | 90 years, 92 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez | Mexico | 1895.12.19 | 1986.03.15 | 90 years, 86 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Juan Francisco Fresno | Chile | 1914.07.26 | 2004.10.14 | 90 years, 80 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Alexis Billiet | France | 1783.02.17 | 1873.04.30 | 90 years, 72 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Vincenzo Macchi | Italy | 1770.08.30 | 1860.09.30 | 90 years, 31 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Alexandru Todea | Rominia | 1912.06.05 | 2002.05.22 | 89 years, 351 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Paul Gouyon | France | 1910.10.24 | 2000.09.26 | 89 years, 338 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Peter Proekuu Dery | Ghana | 1918.05.10 | 2008.03.06 | 89 years, 301 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Ángel Suquía Goicoechea | Spain | 1916.10.02 | 2006.07.13 | 89 years, 284 days | 2008.11.28 |
| François Marty | France | 1904.05.18 | 1994.02.16 | 89 years, 274 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Paolo Marella | Italy | 1895.01.25 | 1984.10.15 | 89 years, 264 days | 2008.11.28 |
| Paul-Joseph Phạm Ðình Tụng | Vietnam | 1919.06.19 | 2009.02.22 | 89 years, 252 days | 2008.11.28 |