Hypothetical List of Longest living Cardinals (what if)

If Every cardinal who are currently living are still alive by 31 December 2025.

List

Rank	Cardinal	Country	Born	Died	Age	Note
1	Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903	2005	101 years, 214 days
2	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926	Alive	101 years, 16 days
3	Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	1925	2025	100 years, 230 days	If He lives to 2025-10-17
4	Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	1915	2016	100 years, 224 days
5	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	1919	2019	100 years, 197 days
6	Luis Pascual Dri O.F.M.Cap	Argentina	1927	2027	100 years, 48 days	If he lives to 2027-06-04
7	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914	2013	99 years, 8 days
8	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	1920	2019	98 years, 362 days
9	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	2025	98 years, 344 days	If He Lives to 2025-01-16
10	Paul Augustin Mayer, O.S.B.	Germany	1911	2010	98 years, 342 days
11	Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	1901	2000	98 years, 223 days
	Franz König	Austria	1905	2004
13	Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	1924	2022	98 years 150 days
14	Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916	2014	98 years, 113 days
15	Albert Vanhoye, S.J.	France	1923	2021	98 years 59 days
16	Paolo Dezza, S.J.	Italy	1901	1999	98 years, 14 days
17	Alexandre José María dos Santos, O.F.M.	Mozambique	1924	2021	98 years, 59 days
18	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	1929	2027	98 years, 5 days	If He lives to 2027-01-30
19	Thomas Stafford Williams	United States	1930	Alive	97 years, 286 days
20	Ernest Simoni	Albania	1928	2026	97 years, 273 days	If he lives to 2026-07-18
21	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928	2025	97 years, 272 days	If he Lives to 2025-11-19
22	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	1927	2025	97 years, 164 days	If He Lives to 2025-04-09
23	Alfons Maria Stickler, S.D.B.	Austria	1910	2007	97 years, 111 days
24	Julian Herranz Casado	Spain	1930	2027	97 years, 105 days	If he lives to 2027-07-14
25	Henryk Gulbinowicz	Poland	1923	2020	97 years 30 days
26	Salvatore De Giorgi	Italy	1930	2027	97 years, 17 days	If he Lives to 2027-09-23
27	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M.	Italy	1896	1993	96 years, 363 days
28	Roger Etchegaray	France	1922	2019	96 years, 344 days
29	Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	1909	2008	96 years, 331 days
30	Camillo Ruini	Italy	1931	Alive	97 years, 316 days
31	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
32	Edward Cassidy	Australia	1924	2021	96 years 279 days
33	Kazimierz Świątek	Belarus	1914	2011	96 years 273 days
34	José da Costa Nuñes	Portugal	1880	1976	96 years, 259 days
35	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	1929	2025	96 years, 244 days	If he likes to 2025-09-06
36	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	1918	2015	96 years, 211 days
37	Domenico Bartolucci	Italy	1911	2007	96 years, 188 days
38	Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J.	Poland	1911	2007	96 years, 180 days
39	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	Spain	1925	2022	96 years, 175 days
40	Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1900	1997	96 years, 121 days
41	Francesco Morano	Italy	1872	1968	96 years, 34 days
42	José Saraiva Martins, CMF	Portugal	1932	Alive	96 years, 360 days
43	Luigi De Magistris	Italy	1926	2022	95 years 358 days
44	José Freire Falcão	Brazil	1925	2021	95 years 338 days
	Lucian Mureșan	Romania	1931	2026		If he lives to 2027-04-26
46	Pietro Parente	Italy	1891	1986	95 years, 316 days
47	Achille Silvestrini	Italy	1923	2019	95 years, 308 days
48	Adam Maida	United States	1930	2026	95 years, 299 days	If he lives to 2026-01-11
49	Paul Poupard	France	1930	1926	95 years, 223 days	If he lives to 2026-04-10
Sergio Sebastiani	Italy	1931	2026	If he lives to 2026-07-31
51	Agostino Cacciavillan	Italy	1926	2022	95 years 204 days
52	Henri de Lubac, S.J.	France	1896	1991	95 years, 196 days
53	Joseph Zen Ze-kiun S.D.B.	China (Hong Kong)	1932	2027	95 years, 169 days	If he lives to 2027-07-01
54	Gaudencio Rosales	Philippines	1932	Alive	96 years, 143 days
55	James Francis Stafford	United States	1932	2027	95 years, 132 days	If he lives to 2027-12-08
56	Pedro Rubiano Sáenz	Colombia	1932	Alive	96 years, 109 days
57	Janis Pujats	Latvia	1930	2026	95 years, 93 days	If he lives to 2026-02-15
58	Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M.	Brazil	1921	2016	95 years, 91 days
59	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	Brazil	1924	2019	95 years, 56 days
60	Alberto Di Jorio	Italy	1884	1979	95 years, 49 days
61	Corrado Ursi	Italy	1908	2003	95 years, 34 days
'62	Renato Martino	Italy	1932	Alive	96 years, 38 days
63	Walter Kasper	Germany	1933	Alive	95 years, 301 days
64	Francis Arinze	Nigeria	1932	2027	94 years, 287 days	If he lives to 2027-08-15
65	Jorge Medina Estévez	Chile	1926	2021	94 years, 284 days
66	Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	1895	1990	94 years, 279 days
66	Juan Sandoval Iñiguez	Mexico	1933	Alive	95 years, 278 days
67	Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	1873	1968	94 years, 259 days
68	Louis-Albert Vachon	Canada	1912	2006	94 years, 237 days
69	Egano Righi-Lambertini	Italy	1906	2000	94 years, 225 days
70	Angelo Sodano	Italy	1927	2022	94 years, 205 days
71	Gilberto Agustoni	italy	1922	2017	94 years, 171 days
72	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Spain	1927	2021	94 years, 142 days
73	Giovanni Cheli	Italy	1918	2013	94 years 122 days
74	Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa ISch	Chile	1933	Alive	95 years, 117 days
75	Raffaele Farina S.D.B.	Italy	1933	Alive	95 years, 98 days
76	Geraldo Majella Agnelo	Brazil	1933	Alive	95 years, 73 days
77	Giuseppe Sensi	Italy	1907	2001	94 years, 60 days
78	Marian Jaworski	Poland	1926	2020	94 years 13 days
79	Carlo Furno	Italy	1921	2015	94 years, 7 days
80	Prosper Grech, O.S.A.	Malta	1925	2019	94 years, 6 days
81	Roberto Tucci, S.J.	Italy	1921	2015	93 years, 360 days
82	Georges Cottier	Switzerland	1922	2016	93 years, 341 days
83	Giovanni Battista Re,	Italy	1934	Alive	94 years, 336 days
84	John Carberry	United States	1904	1998	93 years, 321 days
85'	Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn	Vietnam	1934	Alive	94 years, 301 days
86	Paolo Bertoli	Italy	1908	2001	93 years, 280 days
87	Opilio Rossi	United States	1910	2004	93 years, 271 days
88	Francesco Monterisi	Italy	1934	Alive	94 years, 217 days
89	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	1836	1930	93 years, 216 days
90	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Spain	1926	2019	93 years, 201 days
91	Jean Margéot	Mauritius	1916	2009	93 years, 164 days
92	Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap.	Italy	1934	Alive	94 years, 162 days
93	Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	1806	1899	93 years, 152 days
94	Simon Pimenta	Italy	1920	2013	93 years 140 days
95	Paul Josef Cordes	Gernamy	1934	Alive	93 years, 117 days
96	Franc Rodé, CM	Slovenia	1934	Alive	93 years, 99 days
97	Luis Héctor Villava	Argentina	1934	Alive	94 years, 81 days
98	František Tomášek	Czech Republic	1899	1992	93 years, 35 days
99	Alfredo Scherer	Brazil	1903	1996	93 years, 33 days
100	Tarcisio Bertone	Italy	1934	Alive	94 years, 29 days
1xx	Julius Darmaatmadja S.J.	Indonesia	1934	Alive	94 years, 11 days

Future

Rank	Cardinal	Country	Born	Died	Age by 31 December 2028
1	Giovanni Lajolo	Italy	1935	Alive	93 years, 363 days
2	Justin Rigali	United States	1935	Alive	93 years, 256 days
3	Santos Abril y Castillo	Spain	1935	Alive	93 years, 101 days
4	Roger Mahoney	United States	1936	Alive	93 years, 307 days
5	Anthony Olubumi Okogie	Nigeria	1936	Alive	93 years, 198 days
6	Antonio Maria Rouco Varela	Spain	1936	Alive	93 years, 307 days
7	Nichlás de Jesús López Rodríguez	Dominican Republic	1936	Alive	93 years, 61 days
'8	Ennio Antonelli	Italy	1936	Alive	93 years, 43 days
9	Théodore-Adrien Sarr	Senegal	1936	Alive	93 years, 33 days
'10	Audrys Bačkis	Lithuania	1937	Alive	91 years, 334 days
'11	Raymundo Damasceno Assis	Brazil	1937	Alive	92 years, 319 days
'12	Toribio Ticona Porco	Bolivia	1937	Alive	92 years, 250 days
'13	Lluís Martinez Sistach	Spain	1937	Alive	92 years, 246 days
'14	Michael Fitzgerald MAfr	United Kingdom	1937	Alive	92 years, 136 days
'12	Antonio Maria Veglió	Italy	1938	Alive	92 years, 331 days

See Also

• List of Longest Living Cardinals