Hypothetical List of longest-living Cardinals

This article Hypothetically lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals (after 1800),, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Cardinal was Corrado Bafile, of Italy who lived to ages of 101 years, 214 days.

If Every Living Cardinal is Still Living By 31 December 2024.

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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

ages are up-to-date 10/1/2024

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
7	Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1911	2010	98 years, 342 days
8	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	Alive	98 years, 328 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	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926	Alive	98 years, 30 days
14	Albert Vanhoye, SJ	France	1923	2021	98 years, 5 days
15	Paolo Dezza, S.J.	Italy	1901	1999	98 years, 4 days
16	Luis Pascual Dri OFM Cap.	Argentina	1927	Alive	97 years, 258 days
17	Alexandre José María dos Santos, O.F.M.	Mozambique	1924	2021	97 years, 195 days
18	Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	1910	2007	97 years, 111 days
19	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	1927	Alive	97 years, 74 days
20	Henryk Gulbinowicz	Poland	1923	2020	97 years, 30 days
21	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M.	Italy	1896	1993	96 years, 363 days
22	Roger Etchegaray	France	1922	2019	96 years, 344 days
23	Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	1909	2008	96 years, 331 days
29	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
24	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928	Alive	96 years, 307 days
25	Edward Cassidy	Australia	1924	2021	96 years, 279 days
26	Kazimierz Świątek	Belgium	1914	2011	96 years, 273 days
27	José da Costa Nunes	Portugal	1880	1976	96 years, 259 days
28	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	1918	2015	96 years, 211 days
28	Domenico Bartolucci	Italy	1917	2013	96 years, 188 days
30	Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J.	Zambia	1911	2007	96 years, 180 days
31	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	Spain	1925	2022	96 years, 177 days
32	Ernest Simoni	Albania	1928	Alive	96 years, 74 days
33	Francesco Morano	Italy	1872	1968	96 years, 34 days
34	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	1929	Alive	95 years, 361 days
35	Luigi De Magistris	Italy	1926	2022	95 years 358 days
36	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	1929	Alive	95 years, 341 days
37	José Freire Falcão	Brazil	1925	2021	95 years, 338 days
38	Pietro Parente	Italy	1891	1986	95 years, 316 days
39	Achille Silvestrini	Italy	1923	2019	95 years, 308 days
40	Joseph Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI	Italy	1927	2022	95 years, 279 days
41	Agostino Cacciavillan	Italy	1926	2022	95 years, 204 days
42	Henri de Lubac S.J.	France	1896	1991	95 years, 196 days
43	Paulo Evaristo Arns	Brazil	1921	2016	95 years, 91 days
42	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	Brazil	1924	2019	95 years, 56 days
45	Alberto Di Jorio	Italy	1884	1979	95 years, 47 days
46	Corrado Ursi	Italy	1908	2003	95 years, 34 days
47	Adam Maida	United States	1930	Alive	94 years, 288 days
48	Jorge Medina	Chile	Priest of San Saba pro hac vice Title (2008–2021)	1926	2021	94 years, 284 days
49	Julian Herranz Casado	Spain	1930	Alive	94 years, 275 days
50	Julijans Vaivods	–Latvia	Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati (1983–1990)	1895	1990	94 years, 279 days
51	Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	1873	1968	94 years, 261 days
52	Louis-Albert Vachon	Canada	1912	2006	94 years, 237 days
53	Egano Righi-Lambertini	Italy	1906	2000	94 years, 225 days
54	Angelo Sodano	Italy	1927	2022	94 years, 205 days
55	Theodore McCarrick	United States	1930	alive	94 years, 177 days
56	Gilberto Agustoni	Italy	1922	2017	94 years, 171 days
57	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Spain	1927	2021	94 years, 142 days
58	Paul Poupard	France	1930	Alive	94 years, 123 days
59	Giovanni Cheli	Italy	1918	2013	94 years 122 days
60	Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1902	1997	94 years, 121 days
61	Salvatore De Giorgi	Italy	1930	Alive	94 years, 116 days
62	Giuseppe Sensi	Italy	1907	2001	94 years, 60 days
63	Janis Pujats	Latvia	1930	Alive	94 years, 47 days
64	Marian Jaworski	Poland	1926	2020	94 years 13 days
65	Carlo Furno	Italy	Priest of Sant'Onofrio (2006– 2015)	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
70	Camillo Ruini	Italy	1931	Alive	93 years, 316 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	Lucian Mureșan	Romania	1931	Alive	93 years, 222 days
75	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	1836	1930	93 years, 216 days
76	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Spain	Priest of San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa (2010–2019)	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 later Pope Leo XIII	French Empire	1810	1903	93 years, 140 days
	Simon Pimenta	India	1920	2013
81	František Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	1899	1992	93 years, 36 days
82	Alfredo Scherer	Brazil	1903	1996	93 years, 34 days
83	Antonio Innocenti	Italy	1915	2008	93 years, 21 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	José Saraiva Martins C.M.F.	Portugal	1932	Alive	92 years, 360 days
90	Joseph Zen S.D.B.	China ( Hong Kong)	1932	Alive	92 years, 353 days
91	Julien Ries	Belgium	1920	2013	92 years, 310 days
92	Juan Carlos Aramburu	Argentina	1912	2004	92 years, 281 days
93	Sergio Sebastiani	Italy	Priest of Sant'Eustachio (basilica), pro hac vice (2011-2024)	1931	2024	92 years, 280 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

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No.	Cardinal	Co.	Post	Birth	Death	Age	Age by 12-31-24
1	James Stafford	United States	1932	Alive	92 years, 67 days	92 years, 158 days
2	Gaudencio Rosales	Philippines	1932	Alive	92 years, 52 days	92 years, 143 days
3	Francis Arinze	Nigeria	1932	Alive	91 years, 335 days	92 years, 60 days
4	natoRenato Martino	Italy	1932	Alive	91 years, 313 days	92 years, 38 days
5	Walter Kasper	Germany L|1933	Alive	91 years, 210 days	91 years, 301 days
6	Juan Sandoval Íñiguez	Mexico	1933	Alive	91 years, 187 days	91 years, 278 days
7	Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa Isch	Chile	1933	Alive	91 years, 26 days	91 years, 117 days
8	Raffaele Farina SDB	Italy	1933	Alive	91 years, 7 days	91 years, 98 days
9	Giovanni Battista Re	Italy	1934	Alive	90 years, 245 days	90 years, 336 days
10	Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn	Vietman	1934	Alive	90 years, 210 days	90 years, 301 days
11	Francesco Monterisi	Italy	1934	Alive	90 years, 126 days	90 years, 217 days
12	Raniero Cantalamessa	Italy	1934	Alive	90 years, 71 days	90 years, 162 days
13	Franc Rode CM	Slovenia	1934	Alive	90 years, 8 days	90 years, 99 days
14	Luis Héctor Villalba	Argentina	1934	Alive	89 years, 356 days	90 years, 81 days
15	Tarcisio Bertone SDB	Italy	1934	Alive	89 years, 304 days	90 years, 29 days

Chronological list of Oldest living members of the College of Cardinals

Name	Country	Post	Born	Time as oldest		Death and age
John Henry Newman	U.K. England	Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro (1879– 1890)	1801	??	1890 89 years, 171 days
Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso (1884 – 1899)	1806	1899	1899 93 years, 152 days
Luigi Di Canossa	Italy	Priest of San Marcello (1877–1900)	1809	1899	1900 90 years, 358 days
Michelangelo Celesia	Italy	Priest of San Marco (1887–1904)	1814	1900	1904 90 years, 92 days
François-Marie-Benjamin Richard	France	Priest of Santa Maria in Via (1889–1908)	1819	1904	1904 88 years, 332 days
Anton Josef Gruscha	Italy	Priest of S. Maria degli Angeli (1891– 1911)	1820	1908	1911 90 years, 275 days
Alfonso Capecelatro	Italy	Priest of S. Maria del Popolo (1886 – 1912)	1824	1911	1912 88 years, 283 days
Angelo di Pierto	Italy	Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina (1903 – 1914)	1828	1912	1914 86 years, 197 days
François de Rovérié de Cabrières	France	Priest of S. Maria della Vittoria (1911 – 1921)	1830	1914	1921 91 years, 113 days
Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco	Italy	Priest of San Sisto (1898 –1923)	1833	1921	1923 89 years, 149 days
Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	Bishop of Palestrina (1900 – 1930) Bishop of Ostia (1915 – 1930)	1836	1923	1930 93 years, 216 days
Andreas Frühwirth	Austria	Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso (1927 –1933)	1845	1930	1933 87 years, 172 days
Franz Ehrle	Germany	Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio (1922–1934)	1845	1933	1934 88 years, 165 days
Pierre Andrieu	France	Priest of Sant'Onofrio (1907–1935)	1849	1934	1935 85 years, 70 days
Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	Bishop of Albano (1915 – 1948) Bishop of Ostia (1930 – 1948)	1851	1935	1948 96 years, 312 days
Enrico Sibilia	Italy	Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto (1939–1948)	1861	1948	1948 aged 87 years, 140 days
Alessandro Verde	Italy	Priest of Santa Maria in Cosmedin pro hac vice Title (1935 – 1958)	1865	1948	1958 93 years, 2 days
José María Caro Rodríguez	Chile	Priest of Santa. Maria della Scala pro hac vice Title (1946 – 1958)	1866	1958	1958 92 years, 164 days
Georges Grente	France	Priest of San Bernardo alle Terme (1953– 1959)	1872	1958	1959 87 years, 0 day
Elia Dalla Costa	Italy	Priest of San Marco (1933–1961)	1872	1959	1961 89 years, 222 days
Francesco Morano	Italy	Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano (1959–1968)	1872	1961	1968 96 years, 34 days
Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	Priest of Santa Maria in Aquiro pro hac vice Title (1953–1968)	1873	1968	1968 94 years, 259 days
Augusto da Silva	Brazil	Priest of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria pro hac vice Title (1953–1968)	1876	1968	1968 92 years, 128 days
Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	Bishop of Albano (1948–1970)	1877	1968	1970 93 years, 19 days
Benedetto Aloisi Masella	Italy	Bishop of Palestrina (1948–1970)	1879	1970	1970 91 years, 93 days
Paolo Giobbe	Italy	Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella (1958–1972)	1880	1970	1970 92 years, 217 days
José da Costa Nunes	Portugal	Priest of Santa Prisca (1962–1976)	1880	1972	1976 96 years, 259 days
Alberto di Jorio	Italy	Priest of Santa Pudenziana (1967 – 1979)	1884	1976	1979 95 years, 49 days
Antonio Caggiano	Argentina	Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna (1946– 1979)	1889	1979	1979 90 years, 266 days
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta	Brazil	Priest of San Pancrazio (1946–1982)	1890	1979	1982 92 years, 64 days
Pietro Parente	Italy	Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina (1967–1986)	1891	1982	1986 95 years, 356 days
Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati (1983–1990)	1895	1986	1990 94 years, 279 days
Henri de Lubac	France	Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica (1983–1991)	1896	1990	1991 95 years, 196 days
Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli	Italy	Priest of S. Sebastiano al Palatino pro hac vice Title (1983–1993)	1896	1991	1993 95 years, 196 days
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	Priest of SanSisto (1991–2000)	1901	1993	2000 98 years, 223 days
Corrado Bafile	Italy	Priest of Santa Maria in Portico pro hac vice Title (1987–2005)	1903	2000	2005 101 years, 214 days
Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	Priest of San Sebastiano alle Catacombe (1975–2006)	1909	2005	2008 96 years, 331 days
Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	Priest of San Giorgio in Velabro pro hac vice Title (1996–2007)	1910	2006	2007 97 years, 111 days
Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	Priest of San Anselmo all’Aventino pro hac vice Title (1996–2010)	1911	2007	2010 aged 98 years, 312 days
Ersilio Tonini	Italy	Priest of Santissima Redentore a Valmelaina (1994–2013)	1914	2010	2013 99 years, 8 days
Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	Priest of Santissimo Spirito in Sassia pro hac vice Title (2002–2014)	1916	2013	2014	2014 98 years, 113 days
Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere (2014–2016)	1915	2014	2016 100 years, 224 days
José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	Priest of San Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto (2015–2016)	1919	2016	2019 100 years, 197 days
Roger Etchegaray	France	Bishop of Porto–Santa Rufina (1998– 2019)	1922	2019	2019 96 years, 344 days
Albert Vanhoye	France	Priest of Santa Maria della Mercede e San Adriano a Villa Albani pro hac vice Title (2016–2021)	1923	2019	2021 98 years, 5 days
Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	Priest of Santa Sabina (1996–2022)	1924	2021	2022 98 years, 150 days
Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	Priest of San Marco in Agro Laurentino (1983-present)	1925	2022	Alive99 years, 305 days

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
• List of current members of the Philippine Judiciary
• Hypothetical List of longest-living Cardinals (what if)