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 101 persons are 12 cardinals (11 current and 1 former) and 89 bishops.

List

Rank	Prelate	Country	Born	Ordained	Consecration	Age
1	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	Mexico	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	103 years, 351 days
2	René Henry Gracida	United States	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	102 years, 192 days
3	Settimio Todisco	Italy	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	101 years, 222 days
4	Daniel Verstraete	South Africa	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	101 years, 140 days
5	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	Brazil	October 3, 1924	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	101 years, 76 days
6	Albert Houssiau	Belgium	November 2, 1924	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	101 years, 46 days
7	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	Spain	November 7, 1924	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	101 years, 41 days
8	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	South Korea	November 8, 1924	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	101 years, 40 days
9	Gaetano Bonicelli	Italy	December 13, 1924	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	101 years, 5 days
10	Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	March 1, 1925	December 20, 1952	August 31, 1975	100 years, 292 days
11	James Hector MacDonald	Canada	April 28, 1925	June 29, 1953	April 17, 1978	100 years, 234 days
12	Angelo Acerbi	Italy	September 23, 1925	March 27, 1948	June 30, 1974	100 years, 86 days
13	Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	France	November 21, 1925	March 29, 1952	October 5, 1975	100 years, 27 days
14	John R. Gorman	United States	December 11, 1925	May 1, 1956	April 11, 1988	100 years, 7 days
15	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	February 7, 1926	December 8, 1954	August 15, 1977	99 years, 314 days
16	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	Brazil	June 16, 1926	December 2, 1951	May 24, 1981	99 years, 185 days
17	Heitor de Araújo Sales	Brazil	July 29, 1926	December 3, 1950	June 16, 1978	99 years, 142 days
18	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	Brazil	August 11, 1926	December 6, 1950	August 28, 1966	99 years, 129 days
19	Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	Ecuador	August 24, 1926	June 29, 1951	April 29, 1973	99 years, 116 days
20	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	December 15, 1926	December 21, 1957	November 22, 1981	99 years, 3 days
21	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	South Korea	January 25, 1927	August 22, 1953	January 6, 1984	98 years, 327 days
22	Julian Wojtkowski	Poland	January 31, 1927	June 25, 1950	August 22, 1969	98 years, 321 days
23	Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno	Ecuador	February 14, 1927	June 29, 1953	March 3, 1990	98 years, 307 days
	Gilberto Pereira Lopes	Brazil		December 14, 1949	December 18, 1969
25	Dominic Anthony Marconi	United States	March 13, 1927	May 30, 1953	June 25, 1976	98 years, 280 days
26	Joseph Pallikaparampil	India	April 10, 1927	November 23, 1958	August 15, 1973	98 years, 252 days
27	Luis Pascual Dri	Argentina	April 17, 1927	March 29, 1952	–	98 years, 245 days
28	Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral	Brazil	May 25, 1927	December 8, 1954	April 20, 1975	98 years, 207 days
29	Joseph Martin Sartoris	United States	July 1, 1927	May 30, 1953	March 19, 1994	98 years, 170 days
30	Kazimierz Romaniuk	Poland	August 21, 1927	December 16, 1951	March 4, 1982	98 years, 119 days
31	Edoardo Rovida	Italy	August 26, 1927	June 29, 1950	October 10, 1971	98 years, 114 days
32	Abraham Than	Myanmar	September 21, 1927	September 22, 1957	May 11, 1969	98 years, 88 days
33	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	October 27, 1927	June 9, 1957	October 24, 1976	98 years, 52 days
34	Daniel Cronin	United States	November 14, 1927	December 20, 1952	September 12, 1968	98 years, 34 days
35	Raymond Razakarinvony	Madagascar	November 19, 1927	July 27, 1956	May 17, 1998	98 years, 29 days
36	Bernhard Kühnel	Germany	December 4, 1927	August 6, 1955	April 27, 1983	98 years, 14 days
37	Vincenzo Rimedio	Italy	December 5, 1927	July 22, 1951	October 28, 1982	98 years, 13 days
38	Giovanni Zerbini	Italy	December 29, 1927	June 29, 1956	February 19, 1995	97 years, 354 days
39	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	February 20, 1928	October 10, 1953	June 29, 1968	97 years, 301 days
40	Robert Joseph Banks	United States	February 26, 1928	December 20, 1952	September 19, 1985	97 years, 295 days
41	John Stephen Cummins	United States	March 3, 1928	January 24, 1953	May 16, 1974	97 years, 290 days
42	Gerd Dicke	Germany	March 28, 1928	July 25, 1952	February 16, 1970	97 years, 265 days
43	Allan Chamgwera	Malawi	April 30, 1928	September 7, 1957	May 31, 1981	97 years, 232 days
44	Louis Edward Gelineau	United States	May 3, 1928	June 5, 1953	January 26, 1972	97 years, 229 days
45	Jacques Despierre	France	May 6, 1928	June 24, 1952	October 10, 1982	97 years, 226 days
46	Pierre Mouallem	Israel	May 10, 1928	November 21, 1955	June 29, 1990	97 years, 222 days
47	Charles Louis Joseph Vandame	Chad	June 4, 1928	September 7, 1960	January 6, 1982	97 years, 197 days
48	Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque	Brazil	July 24, 1928	December 8, 1953	May 5, 1985	97 years, 147 days
49	Philippe Bär	Netherlands	July 29, 1928	July 26, 1959	March 20, 1982	97 years, 142 days
50	Ignacio Trejos Picado	Costa Rica	July 31, 1928	March 8, 1952	March 8, 1968	97 years, 140 days
51	Peter Chung Hoan Ting	Malaysia	September 10, 1928	September 26, 1954	November 15, 1970	97 years, 99 days
52	Owen Dolan	New Zealand	September 30, 1928	July 21, 1954	December 10, 1995	97 years, 79 days
53	István Katona	Hungary	October 3, 1928	June 7, 1953	December 9, 1989	97 years, 76 days
54	Francisco Barroso Filho	Brazil	October 8, 1928	December 1, 1957	March 19, 1984	97 years, 71 days
55	Ernest Simoni	Albania	October 18, 1928	April 7, 1956	–	97 years, 61 days
56	Lucas Liu Hsien-tang	Taiwan	December 21, 1928	November 30, 1956	January 1, 1981	96 years, 362 days
57	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	January 5, 1929	July 26, 1953	November 13, 2010	96 years, 347 days
58	Melchior Shi Hongzhen	China	January 7, 1929	July 4, 1954	June 15, 1982	96 years, 345 days
59	Fritz Lobinger	Germany	January 22, 1929	June 29, 1955	February 27, 1988	96 years, 330 days
60	Adalberto Paulo da Silva	Brazil	January 25, 1929	December 8, 1956	August 3, 1975	96 years, 327 days
	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand		December 20, 1959	June 3, 1973
62	Edgerton Roland Clarke	Jamaica	February 14, 1929	February 2, 1960	November 30, 1967	96 years, 307 days
63	Leo Nowak	Germany	March 17, 1929	May 10, 1956	March 24, 1990	96 years, 276 days
64	Georges Gilson	France	May 30, 1929	April 20, 1957	October 9, 1976	96 years, 202 days
65	Pier Giuliano Tiddia	Italy	June 13, 1929	December 16, 1951	February 2, 1975	96 years, 188 days
66	Paolo Gillet	Italy	July 8, 1929	September 19, 1953	January 6, 1994	96 years, 163 days
67	René Dupont	France	September 2, 1929	June 29, 1953	July 25, 1969	96 years, 107 days
68	Patricio Infante Alfonso	Chile	October 9, 1929	June 28, 1953	September 23, 1984	96 years, 70 days
69	Angelo Mascheroni	Italy	October 13, 1929	June 13, 1952	June 24, 1990	96 years, 66 days
70	Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez	Cuba	October 18, 1929	June 25, 1955	March 19, 1970	96 years, 61 days
71	Antônio de Souza	Brazil	October 21, 1929	July 1, 1956	April 16, 1974	96 years, 58 days
72	Vincenzo Zarri	Italy	October 23, 1929	July 25, 1952	June 29, 1976	96 years, 56 days
73	Paul-Marie Gillaume	France	October 31, 1929	April 9, 1955	December 9, 1984	96 years, 48 days
74	Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal	Colombia	December 2, 1929	August 17, 1958	September 8, 1972	96 years, 16 days
75	José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle	Brazil	December 3, 1929	January 10, 1954	July 23, 1982	96 years, 15 days
76	Ramón Buxarrais Ventura	Spain	December 12, 1929	December 17, 1955	October 3, 1971	96 years, 6 days
77	Victorio Oliver Domingo	Spain	December 23, 1929	June 27, 1954	October 12, 1972	95 years, 360 days
78	Miguel Caviedes	Chile	January 30, 1930	September 18, 1954	December 19, 1982	95 years, 322 days
79	Jean Bonfils	France	February 15, 1930	December 7, 1954	January 10, 1993	95 years, 306 days
80	Pedro Dean	Philippines	February 21, 1930	November 30, 1956	January 25, 1978	95 years, 300 days
81	David Cremin	Australia	February 22, 1930	June 12, 1955	January 19, 1974	95 years, 299 days
82	Francesco Cuccarese	Italy	March 8, 1930	July 19, 1953	April 1, 1979	95 years, 285 days
83	Adam Maida	United States	March 18, 1930	May 26, 1956	January 25, 1984	95 years, 275 days
84	Julián Herranz Casado	Spain	March 31, 1930	August 7, 1955	January 6, 1991	95 years, 262 days
85	Adélio Tomasin	Brazil	April 27, 1930	March 26, 1955	March 26, 1988	95 years, 235 days
86	Juan Luis Ysern de Arce	Chile	May 2, 1930	June 29, 1953	May 7, 1972	95 years, 230 days
87	William Edwin Franklin	United States	May 3, 1930	February 4, 1956	April 1, 1987	95 years, 229 days
88	Giuseppe Di Falco	Italy	May 13, 1930	June 29, 1953	July 14, 1985	95 years, 219 days
89	José da Silva Chaves	Brazil	May 15, 1930	December 8, 1955	February 11, 1968	95 years, 217 days
	Lawrence Sabatini	Canada		March 19, 1957	September 21, 1978
91	William J. Winter	United States	May 20, 1930	December 17, 1955	February 13, 1989	95 years, 212 days
92	Emmanuel Milingo	Zambia	June 13, 1930	August 31, 1958	August 1, 1969	95 years, 188 days
93	Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva	Portugal	June 16, 1930	August 1, 1954	June 16, 1979	95 years, 185 days
94	Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka	Iraq	June 20, 1930	October 17, 1954	December 8, 1979	95 years, 181 days
95	Orlando Octacílio Dotti	Brazil	June 22, 1930	April 8, 1956	May 25, 1969	95 years, 179 days
96	Raúl Corriveau	Honduras	June 27, 1930	July 1, 1956	December 8, 1980	95 years, 174 days
97	Émile Marcus	France	June 29, 1930	June 29, 1957	May 13, 1977	95 years, 172 days
98	Theodore McCarrick	United States	July 7, 1930	May 31, 1958	June 29, 1977	95 years, 164 days
99	Thadeu Gomes Canellas	Brazil	July 28, 1930	February 25, 1956	February 25, 1984	95 years, 143 days
100	Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni	Lebanon	August 8, 1930	October 17, 1954	December 18, 1983	95 years, 132 days
	John Joseph Leibrecht	United States		March 17, 1956	December 12, 1984

See Also

• List of current cardinals
• List of longest-living Cardinals