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 14 cardinals (13 current and 1 former) and 86 bishops.
List
| Rank | Prelate | Country | Born | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | January 1, 1922 | 103 years, 343 days | |
| 2 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | 102 years, 184 days | |
| 3 | Settimio Todisco | May 10, 1924 | 101 years, 214 days | |
| 4 | Daniel Verstraete | July 31, 1924 | 101 years, 132 days | |
| 5 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | 101 years, 68 days | |
| 6 | Albert Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | 101 years, 38 days | |
| 7 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | 101 years, 33 days | |
| 8 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | 101 years, 32 days | |
| 9 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | 100 years, 362 days | |
| 10 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | 100 years, 226 days | |
| 11 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | 100 years, 78 days | |
| 12 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | 100 years, 19 days | |
| 13 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | 99 years, 364 days | |
| 14 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | February 7, 1926 | 99 years, 306 days | |
| 15 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | 99 years, 177 days | |
| 16 | Heitor de Araújo Sales | July 29, 1926 | 99 years, 134 days | |
| 17 | Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | August 11, 1926 | 99 years, 121 days | |
| 18 | Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | August 24, in 1926 | 99 years, 108 days | |
| 19 | Emmanuel Wamala | December 15, 1926 | 98 years, 360 days | |
| 20 | Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | January 25, 1927 | 98 years, 319 days | |
| 21 | Julian Wojtkowski | January 31, 1927 | 98 years, 313 days | |
| 22 | Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno | February 14, 1927 | 98 years, 299 days | |
| Gilberto Pereira Lopes | ||||
| 24 | Dominic Anthony Marconi | March 13, 1927 | 98 years, 272 days | |
| 25 | Joseph Pallikaparampil | April 10, 1927 | 98 years, 244 days | |
| 26 | Luis Pascual Dri | April 17, 1927 | 98 years, 237 days | |
| 27 | Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral | May 25, 1927 | 98 years, 199 days | |
| 28 | Joseph Martin Sartoris | July 1, 1927 | 98 years, 162 days | |
| 29 | Edoardo Rovida | August 26, 1927 | 98 years, 106 days | |
| 30 | Abraham Than | September 21, 1927 | 98 years, 80 days | |
| 31 | Júlio Duarte Langa | October 27, 1927 | 98 years, 44 days | |
| 32 | Daniel Cronin | November 14, 1927 | 98 years, 26 days | |
| 33 | Raymond Razakarinvony | November 19, 1927 | 98 years, 21 days | |
| 34 | Bernhard Kühnel | December 4, 1927 | 98 years, 6 days | |
| 35 | Vincenzo Rimedio | December 5, 1927 | 98 years, 5 days | |
| 36 | Giovanni Zerbini | December 29, 1927 | 97 years, 346 days | |
| 37 | Friedrich Wetter | February 20, 1928 | 97 years, 293 days | |
| 38 | Robert Joseph Banks | February 26, 1928 | 97 years, 287 days | |
| 39 | Gerd Dicke | March 28, 1928 | 97 years, 257 days | |
| 40 | Allan Chamgwera | April 30, 1928 | 97 years, 224 days | |
| 41 | Jacques Despierre | May 6, 1928 | 97 years, 218 days | |
| 42 | Pierre Mouallem | May 10, 1928 | 97 years, 214 days | |
| 43 | Charles Louis Joseph Vandame | June 4, 1928 | 97 years, 189 days | |
| 44 | Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque | July 24, 1928 | 97 years, 139 days | |
| 45 | Philippe Bär | July 29, 1928 | 97 years, 134 days | |
| 46 | Ignacio Trejos Picado | July 31, 1928 | 97 years, 132 days | |
| 47 | Peter Chung Hoan Ting | September 10, 1928 | 97 years, 91 days | |
| 48 | Owen Dolan | September 30, 1928 | 97 years, 71 days | |
| 49 | István Katona | October 3, 1928 | 97 years, 68 days | |
| 50 | Francisco Barroso Filho | October 8, 1928 | 97 years, 63 days | |
| 51 | Ernest Simoni | October 18, 1928 | 97 years, 53 days | |
| 52 | Lucas Liu Hsien-tang | December 21, 1928 | 96 years, 354 days | |
| 53 | Walter Brandmüller | January 5, 1929 | 96 years, 339 days | |
| 54 | Melchior Shi Hongzhen | January 7, 1929 | 96 years, 337 days | |
| 55 | Fritz Lobinger | January 22, 1929 | 96 years, 322 days | |
| 56 | Adalberto Paulo da Silva | January 25, 1929 | 96 years, 319 days | |
| Michael Michai Kitbunchu | ||||
| 58 | Leo Nowak | March 17, 1929 | 96 years, 268 days | |
| 59 | Pier Giuliano Tiddia | June 13, 1929 | 96 years, 180 days | |
| 60 | Paolo Gillet | July 8, 1929 | 96 years, 155 days | |
| 61 | René Dupont | September 2, 1929 | 96 years, 99 days | |
| 62 | Patricio Infante Alfonso | October 9, 1929 | 96 years, 62 days | |
| 63 | Angelo Mascheroni | October 13, 1929 | 96 years, 58 days | |
| 64 | Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez | October 18, 1929 | 96 years, 53 days | |
| 65 | Antônio de Souza | October 21, 1929 | 96 years, 50 days | |
| 66 | Vincenzo Zarri | October 23, 1929 | 96 years, 48 days | |
| 67 | Paul-Marie Gillaume | October 31, 1929 | 96 years, 40 days | |
| 68 | Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal | December 2, 1929 | 96 years, 8 days | |
| 69 | José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle | December 3, 1929 | 96 years, 7 days | |
| 70 | Ramón Buxarrais Ventura | December 12, 1929 | 95 years, 363 days | |
| 71 | Victorio Oliver Domingo | December 23, 1929 | 95 years, 352 days | |
| 72 | Miguel Caviedes | January 30, 1930 | 95 years, 314 days | |
| 73 | Jean Bonfils | February 15, 1930 | 95 years, 298 days | |
| 74 | Pedro Dean | February 21, 1930 | 95 years, 292 days | |
| 75 | David Cremin | February 22, 1930 | 95 years, 291 days | |
| 76 | Francesco Cuccarese | March 8, 1930 | 95 years, 277 days | |
| 77 | Adam Maida | March 18, 1930 | 95 years, 267 days | |
| 78 | Julián Herranz Casado | March 31, 1930 | 95 years, 254 days | |
| 79 | Juan Luis Ysern de Arce | May 2, 1930 | 95 years, 222 days | |
| 80 | William Edwin Franklin | May 3, 1930 | 95 years, 221 days | |
| 81 | Giuseppe Di Falco | May 13, 1930 | 95 years, 211 days | |
| 82 | José da Silva Chaves | May 15, 1930 | 95 years, 209 days | |
| Lawrence Sabatini | ||||
| 84 | William J. Winter | May 20, 1930 | 95 years, 204 days | |
| 85 | Emmanuel Milingo | June 13, 1930 | 95 years, 180 days | |
| 86 | Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva | June 16, 1930 | 95 years, 177 days | |
| 87 | Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka | June 20, 1930 | 95 years, 173 days | |
| 88 | Orlando Octacílio Dotti | June 22, 1930 | 95 years, 171 days | |
| 89 | Raúl Corriveau | June 27, 1930 | 95 years, 166 days | |
| 90 | Émile Marcus | June 29, 1930 | 95 years, 164 days | |
| 91 | Theodore McCarrick | July 7, 1930 | 95 years, 156 days | |
| 92 | Thadeu Gomes Canellas | July 28, 1930 | 95 years, 135 days | |
| 93 | Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni | August 8, 1930 | 95 years, 124 days | |
| John Joseph Leibrecht | ||||
| 95 | Teodoro de Faria | August 24, 1930 | 95 years, 108 days | |
| 96 | Johannes Antonius de Kok | August 28, 1930 | 95 years, 104 days | |
| 97 | Paul Poupard | August 30, 1930 | 95 years, 102 days | |
| 98 | Godefroid Mukeng’a Kalond | August 31, 1930 | 95 years, 101 days | |
| 99 | Sylvester Donovan Ryan | September 3, 1930 | 95 years, 98 days | |
| 100 | Salvatore de Giorgi | September 6, 1930 | 95 years, 95 days |