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 100 persons are 13 cardinals (12 current and 1 former) and 87 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, 345 days
2	René Henry Gracida	United States	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	102 years, 186 days
3	Settimio Todisco	Italy	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	101 years, 216 days
4	Daniel Verstraete	South Africa	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	101 years, 134 days
5	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	Brazil	October 3, 1924	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	101 years, 70 days
6	Albert Houssiau	Belgium	November 2, 1924	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	101 years, 40 days
7	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	Spain	November 7, 1924	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	101 years, 35 days
8	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	South Korea	November 8, 1924	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	101 years, 34 days
9	Gaetano Bonicelli	Italy	December 13, 1924	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	100 years, 364 days
10	James Hector MacDonald	Canada	April 28, 1925	June 29, 1953	April 17, 1978	100 years, 228 days
11	Angelo Acerbi	Italy	September 23, 1925	March 27, 1948	June 30, 1974	100 years, 80 days
12	Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	France	November 21, 1925	March 29, 1952	October 5, 1975	100 years, 21 days
13	John R. Gorman	United States	December 11, 1925	May 1, 1956	April 11, 1988	100 years, 1 day
14	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	February 7, 1926	December 8, 1954	August 15, 1977	99 years, 308 days
15	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	Brazil	June 16, 1926	December 2, 1951	May 24, 1981	99 years, 179 days
16	Heitor de Araújo Sales	Brazil	July 29, 1926	December 3, 1950	June 16, 1978	99 years, 136 days
17	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	Brazil	August 11, 1926	December 6, 1950	August 28, 1966	99 years, 123 days
18	Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	Ecuador	August 24, 1926	June 29, 1951	April 29, 1973	99 years, 110 days
19	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	December 15, 1926	December 21, 1957	November 22, 1981	98 years, 362 days
20	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	South Korea	January 25, 1927	August 22, 1953	January 6, 1984	98 years, 321 days
21	Julian Wojtkowski	Poland	January 31, 1927	June 25, 1950	August 22, 1969	98 years, 315 days
22	Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno	Ecuador	February 14, 1927	June 29, 1953	March 3, 1990	98 years, 301 days
	Gilberto Pereira Lopes	Brazil		December 14, 1949	December 18, 1969
24	Dominic Anthony Marconi	United States	March 13, 1927	May 30, 1953	June 25, 1976	98 years, 274 days
25	Joseph Pallikaparampil	India	April 10, 1927	November 23, 1958	August 15, 1973	98 years, 246 days
26	Luis Pascual Dri	Argentina	April 17, 1927	March 29, 1952	–	98 years, 239 days
27	Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral	Brazil	May 25, 1927	December 8, 1954	April 20, 1975	98 years, 201 days
28	Joseph Martin Sartoris	United States	July 1, 1927	May 30, 1953	March 19, 1994	98 years, 164 days
29	Kazimierz Romaniuk	Poland	August 21, 1927	December 16, 1951	March 4, 1982	98 years, 113 days
30	Edoardo Rovida	Italy	August 26, 1927	June 29, 1950	October 10, 1971	98 years, 108 days
31	Abraham Than	Myanmar	September 21, 1927	September 22, 1957	May 11, 1969	98 years, 82 days
32	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	October 27, 1927	June 9, 1957	October 24, 1976	98 years, 46 days
33	Daniel Cronin	United States	November 14, 1927	December 20, 1952	September 12, 1968	98 years, 28 days
34	Raymond Razakarinvony	Madagascar	November 19, 1927	July 27, 1956	May 17, 1998	98 years, 23 days
35	Bernhard Kühnel	Germany	December 4, 1927	August 6, 1955	April 27, 1983	98 years, 8 days
36	Vincenzo Rimedio	Italy	December 5, 1927	July 22, 1951	October 28, 1982	98 years, 7 days
37	Giovanni Zerbini	Italy	December 29, 1927	June 29, 1956	February 19, 1995	97 years, 348 days
38	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	February 20, 1928	October 10, 1953	June 29, 1968	97 years, 295 days
39	Robert Joseph Banks	United States	February 26, 1928	December 20, 1952	September 19, 1985	97 years, 289 days
40	Gerd Dicke	Germany	March 28, 1928	July 25, 1952	February 16, 1970	97 years, 259 days
41	Allan Chamgwera	Malawi	April 30, 1928	September 7, 1957	May 31, 1981	97 years, 226 days
42	Jacques Despierre	France	May 6, 1928	June 24, 1952	October 10, 1982	97 years, 220 days
43	Pierre Mouallem	Israel	May 10, 1928	November 21, 1955	June 29, 1990	97 years, 216 days
44	Charles Louis Joseph Vandame	Chad	June 4, 1928	September 7, 1960	January 6, 1982	97 years, 191 days
45	Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque	Brazil	July 24, 1928	December 8, 1953	May 5, 1985	97 years, 141 days
46	Philippe Bär	Netherlands	July 29, 1928	July 26, 1959	March 20, 1982	97 years, 136 days
47	Ignacio Trejos Picado	Costa Rica	July 31, 1928	March 8, 1952	March 8, 1968	97 years, 134 days
48	Peter Chung Hoan Ting	Malaysia	September 10, 1928	September 26, 1954	November 15, 1970	97 years, 93 days
49	Owen Dolan	New Zealand	September 30, 1928	July 21, 1954	December 10, 1995	97 years, 73 days
50	István Katona	Hungary	October 3, 1928	June 7, 1953	December 9, 1989	97 years, 70 days
51	Francisco Barroso Filho	Brazil	October 8, 1928	December 1, 1957	March 19, 1984	97 years, 65 days
52	Ernest Simoni	Albania	October 18, 1928	April 7, 1956	–	97 years, 55 days
53	Lucas Liu Hsien-tang	Taiwan	December 21, 1928	November 30, 1956	January 1, 1981	96 years, 356 days
54	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	January 5, 1929	July 26, 1953	November 13, 2010	96 years, 341 days
55	Melchior Shi Hongzhen	China	January 7, 1929	July 4, 1954	June 15, 1982	96 years, 339 days
56	Fritz Lobinger	Germany	January 22, 1929	June 29, 1955	February 27, 1988	96 years, 324 days
57	Adalberto Paulo da Silva	Brazil	January 25, 1929	December 8, 1956	August 3, 1975	96 years, 321 days
	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand		December 20, 1959	June 3, 1973
59	Edgerton Roland Clarke	Jamaica	February 14, 1929	February 2, 1960	November 30, 1967	96 years, 301 days
60	Leo Nowak	Germany	March 17, 1929	May 10, 1956	March 24, 1990	96 years, 270 days
61	Pier Giuliano Tiddia	Italy	June 13, 1929	December 16, 1951	February 2, 1975	96 years, 182 days
62	Paolo Gillet	Italy	July 8, 1929	September 19, 1953	January 6, 1994	96 years, 157 days
63	René Dupont	France	September 2, 1929	June 29, 1953	July 25, 1969	96 years, 101 days
64	Patricio Infante Alfonso	Chile	October 9, 1929	June 28, 1953	September 23, 1984	96 years, 64 days
65	Angelo Mascheroni	Italy	October 13, 1929	June 13, 1952	June 24, 1990	96 years, 60 days
66	Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez	Cuba	October 18, 1929	June 25, 1955	March 19, 1970	96 years, 55 days
67	Antônio de Souza	Brazil	October 21, 1929	July 1, 1956	April 16, 1974	96 years, 52 days
68	Vincenzo Zarri	Italy	October 23, 1929	July 25, 1952	June 29, 1976	96 years, 50 days
69	Paul-Marie Gillaume	France	October 31, 1929	April 9, 1955	December 9, 1984	96 years, 42 days
70	Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal	Colombia	December 2, 1929	August 17, 1958	September 8, 1972	96 years, 10 days
71	José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle	Brazil	December 3, 1929	January 10, 1954	July 23, 1982	96 years, 9 days
72	Ramón Buxarrais Ventura	Spain	December 12, 1929	December 17, 1955	October 3, 1971	96 years, 0 days
73	Victorio Oliver Domingo	Spain	December 23, 1929	June 27, 1954	October 12, 1972	95 years, 354 days
74	Miguel Caviedes	Chile	January 30, 1930	September 18, 1954	December 19, 1982	95 years, 316 days
75	Jean Bonfils	France	February 15, 1930	December 7, 1954	January 10, 1993	95 years, 300 days
76	Pedro Dean	Philippines	February 21, 1930	November 30, 1956	January 25, 1978	95 years, 294 days
77	David Cremin	Australia	February 22, 1930	June 12, 1955	January 19, 1974	95 years, 293 days
78	Francesco Cuccarese	Italy	March 8, 1930	July 19, 1953	April 1, 1979	95 years, 279 days
79	Adam Maida	United States	March 18, 1930	May 26, 1956	January 25, 1984	95 years, 269 days
80	Julián Herranz Casado	Spain	March 31, 1930	August 7, 1955	January 6, 1991	95 years, 256 days
81	Juan Luis Ysern de Arce	Chile	May 2, 1930	June 29, 1953	May 7, 1972	95 years, 224 days
82	William Edwin Franklin	United States	May 3, 1930	February 4, 1956	April 1, 1987	95 years, 223 days
83	Giuseppe Di Falco	Italy	May 13, 1930	June 29, 1953	July 14, 1985	95 years, 213 days
84	José da Silva Chaves	Brazil	May 15, 1930	December 8, 1955	February 11, 1968	95 years, 211 days
	Lawrence Sabatini	Canada		March 19, 1957	September 21, 1978
86	William J. Winter	United States	May 20, 1930	December 17, 1955	February 13, 1989	95 years, 206 days
87	Emmanuel Milingo	Zambia	June 13, 1930	August 31, 1958	August 1, 1969	95 years, 182 days
88	Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva	Portugal	June 16, 1930	August 1, 1954	June 16, 1979	95 years, 179 days
89	Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka	Iraq	June 20, 1930	October 17, 1954	December 8, 1979	95 years, 175 days
90	Orlando Octacílio Dotti	Brazil	June 22, 1930	April 8, 1956	May 25, 1969	95 years, 173 days
91	Raúl Corriveau	Honduras	June 27, 1930	July 1, 1956	December 8, 1980	95 years, 168 days
92	Émile Marcus	France	June 29, 1930	June 29, 1957	May 13, 1977	95 years, 166 days
93	Theodore McCarrick	United States	July 7, 1930	May 31, 1958	June 29, 1977	95 years, 158 days
94	Thadeu Gomes Canellas	Brazil	July 28, 1930	February 25, 1956	February 25, 1984	95 years, 137 days
95	Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni	Lebanon	August 8, 1930	October 17, 1954	December 18, 1983	95 years, 126 days
	John Joseph Leibrecht	United States		March 17, 1956	December 12, 1984
97	Teodoro de Faria	Portugal	August 24, 1930	September 22, 1956	May 16, 1982	95 years, 110 days
98	Johannes Antonius de Kok	Netherlands	August 28, 1930	March 11, 1956	March 6, 1982	95 years, 106 days
99	Paul Poupard	&France	August 30, 1930	December 18, 1954	April 6, 1979	95 years, 104 days
100	Godefroid Mukeng’a Kalond	D. R. Congo	August 31, 1930	March 2, 1958	December 5, 1971	95 years, 103 days

Chronological List of eldest Roman Catholic Prelates Since 1890

Became oldest prelate	End as oldest prelate	Name	Country	Office held	Birth
??	1891.03.25	Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel, O.F.M. Cap.	Canada	1802.12.01
1893.03.25	1895.01.20	Tobias Kirby	Greece	Titular Archbishop of Ephesus (1886-1895)	1803.01.01
1895.01.20	1896.05.12	Giovanni Cirino	Italy	Auxiliary Bishop of Palerthe mo, Italy Titular Archbishop of An in yra	1805.03.18
1896.05.12	1899.07.11	Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	Cardinal-Deacon of San Lorenzo in Damaso (1884-1899)	1806.02.09
1899.07.12	1901.06.16	Adrian Jardinier	Switzerland	Bishop of Sion (Sitten) (1875-1901)	1808.04.15
1901.06.16	1909.09.01	Raffaele Morisciano	Italy	Bishop of Squillace (1858-1909)	1811.10.22
1909.09.01	1910.11.01	Simon Aichner	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Theodoropolis (1904-1910)	1816.10.19
1910.11.01	1916.11.28	Henri Monnier	France	Archbishop of Cambrai (1872-1916)	1820.01.05
1915.04.08	1919.07.31	Domenico Gaspare Lancia di Brolo, O.S.B.	Italy	Archbishop of Monreale (1884-1919)	1825.10.01
1919.07.31	1921.07.18	Paolo Schinosi	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis (1901-1921)	1827.04.05
1921.07.18	1921.12.21	François de Rovérié de Cabrières	France	Archbishop of Montpellier (1874-1921) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria (1911-21)	1830.08.30
1921.12.21	1925.06.19	Pedro Rocamora y García	Spain	Bishop of Tortosa (1894-1925)	1832.02.11
1925.06.19	1925.10.25	Agnello Renzullo	Italy	Bishop of Nola (1890-1924) Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Lydia (1924-1925)	1836.04.02
1925.10.25	1928.10.01	Abraham Brownrigg	Ireland	Bishop of Ossory (1884-1928)	1836.12.03
1926.06.19	1930.07.09	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Sardes (1884-1930) Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite (1891-1900) Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina (1900-1930) Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (1915-1930)	1836.12.05
1930.07.09	1935.06.03	Francis Redwood	New Zealand	Archbishop of Wellington (1987-1935)	1839.06.06or
1935.06.03	1937.11.15	Vineri Gisleno	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Darnis (1919-1937)	1844.09.31
1937.11.15	1939.01.20	Juan Torres y Rivas	Spain	Bishop of Menorca (1902-1939)	1844.12.13
1939.01.20	1941.08.08	Giovanni Maria Zonghi	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Collosae (1914-1941)	1847.08.03
1939.01.20	1942.03.18	Paul-Augustin Le Couer	France	Bishop of Saint-Flour (1906-1942)	1848.03.13
1942.03.18	1948.02.16	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Edessa in Osrhorëne (1899-1948) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli (1911-1915) Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (1915-1948) Bishop of Ostia (1930-1948)	1851.04.10
1948.02.16	1953.12.25	Leonidas Medina	Colombia	Archbishop of Novae Patrae (1947-1953)	1854.06.18
1953.12.25	1954.04.05	Jesús Maria Echavarria y Aguirre	Mexico	Bishop of Saltillo, Cualhuila (1987-1935)	1858.07.06
1954.04.05	1955.10.25	Michael Fogarty	Ireland	Archbishop of Killaloe (1954-1955)	1859.10.11
1955.10.25	1956.03.26	Antonio di Tommaso	Italy	Titular Bishop of Cyrene (1947-1956)	1860.08.10
1956.03.26	1957.01.05	Alexandre Caillot	France	Bishop of Grenoble (1917-1957)	1861.06.21
1957.01.05	1957.10.31	Francesco d'Errico	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Samosata (1938-1957)	1862.08.05
1957.10.31	1963.12.06	Alfonso Carinci	Italy	Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria (1945-1963)	1862.11.09
1963.12.06	1967.07.29	Angelo Paino	Italy	Archbishop of Messina (1923-1963) Titular Archbishop of Serrae (1963-1967)	1870.06.21
1967.07.29	1968.10.27	Mateo Múgica Urrestarazu	Spain	Bishop of Vittoria (1923-1937) Titular Bishop of Cinna (1937-1968)	1870.09.21
1968.10.27	1969.10.18	John Bernard MacGinley	United States	Bushes of Nueva Caceres (Philippines) (1910-1924) Bishop of Monterey-Fresno (US) (1924-1932) Titular Bishop of Croae (1932-1969)	1871.08.19
1969.10.18	1970.10.13	Jean Marie Patrice Flynn	France	Bishop of Nevers (1932-1963) Titular Bishop of Arneae (1963-1970)	1874.08.15
1970.10.13	1972.12.13	Jean-Marie Jan	Haiti	Titular Bishop of Edistiana (1953-1970)	1875.11.02
1972.12.13	1973.04.17	Bernardin Shlaku	Albania	Titular Bishop of Tiberias (1910-1973) Bishop of Pult (1911-1973)	1875.06.23
1972.12.13	1973.04.17	Bernardin Shlaku	Albania	Titular Bishop of Tiberias (1910-1973) Bishop of Pult (1911-1973)	1875.06.23
1973.04.17	1983.01.02	Edward Daniel Howard	United States	Archbishop of Portland (1926-1966) Titular Archbishop of Albulae (1966-1983)	1877.11.05
1983.01.02	1984.01.22	Mikiel Gonzi	Malta	Archbishop of Malta (1944-1976)	1885.05.13
1984.01.22	1985.04.27	Pierre Kamel Medawar	Syria	Auxillary Bishop of Antioch (1943-1969) Titular Bishop of Pelusium dei Greco-Melkiti (1943-1985)	1877.12.26
1985.04.27	1986.03.06	Emilio de Brigard Ortiz	Colombia	Auxillary Bishop of Bogotá (1944-1986) Titular Bishop of Coracesium (1944-1961) Titular Archbishop of Dystis (1961-1986)	1888.05.15
1986.03.06	1989.10.13	Alfredo Cifuentes Gómes	Chile	Archbishop of La Serena (1943-1967) Titular Archbishop of Thapsus (1967-1970)	1888.05.15
1989.10.13	1991.08.18	Patrick Joseph Kelly	Nigeria	Titular Bishop of Thignica (1939-1950) Bishop of Benin City (1950-1973)	1894.08.31
1991.08.18	1999.03.21	John Linus Paschang	United States	Bishop of Grand Island (1951-1972)	1895.10.05
1999.05.23	2003.04.26	José Calasanz Rosenhammer	Bolivia	Titular Bishop of Ampora (1949-2003)	1900.01.01
2003.03.26	2007.01.07	Joseph Meng Ziwen	China	Archbishop of Nanning (1984-2007)	1903.03.19
2009.11.06	2015.01.01	Géry Leuliet	Canada-Franco	Auxillary Bishop of Amiens (1963-1985)	1910.01.12
2015.01.01	2016.09.20	Peter Leo Gerety	United States	Archbishop of New Ark (1974-1986)	1912.07.19
2016.09.20	2020.06.21	Manuel José Bernardino Piñera Carvallo	Chile	Archbishop of La Serena (1983-1990)	1915.09.22
2020.06.21	2020.11.24	Damián Iguacén Borau	Spain	Bishop of San Cristobal de La Laguna or Tenrrife (1984-1991)	1916.02.12
2020.11.24	2022.07.02	Laurent Noël	Canada	Bishop of Trois-Ravières (1975-1996)	1920.03.19
2022.07.02	present	:José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra'	Mexico	Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (1985-1993)	1922.01.01

See Also

• List of longest-living cardinals