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 Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico January 1, 1922 103 years, 343 days
2 René Henry Gracida Flag of the United States.svg United States June 9, 1923 102 years, 184 days
3 Settimio Todisco Flag of Italy.svg Italy May 10, 1924 101 years, 214 days
4 Daniel Verstraete Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa July 31, 1924 101 years, 132 days
5 Manuel Edmilson da Cruz Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil October 3, 1924 101 years, 68 days
6 Albert Houssiau Flag of Belgium.svg Belgium November 2, 1924 101 years, 38 days
7 Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña Flag of Spain.svg Spain November 7, 1924 101 years, 33 days
8 Victorinus Youn Kong-hi Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea November 8, 1924 101 years, 32 days
9 Gaetano Bonicelli Flag of Italy.svg Italy December 13, 1924 100 years, 362 days
10 James Hector MacDonald Flag of Canada.svg Canada April 28, 1925 100 years, 226 days
11 Angelo Acerbi Flag of Italy.svg Italy September 23, 1925 100 years, 78 days
12 Jacques de Saint-Blanquat Flag of France.svg France November 21, 1925 100 years, 19 days
13 John R. Gorman Flag of the United States.svg United States December 11, 1925 99 years, 364 days
14 Estanislao Esteban Karlic Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina February 7, 1926 99 years, 306 days
15 Hildebrando Mendes Costa Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil June 16, 1926 99 years, 177 days
16 Heitor de Araújo Sales Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil July 29, 1926 99 years, 134 days
17 Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil August 11, 1926 99 years, 121 days
18 Raúl Holguer López Mayorga Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador August 24, in 1926 99 years, 108 days
19 Emmanuel Wamala Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda December 15, 1926 98 years, 360 days
20 Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea January 25, 1927 98 years, 319 days
21 Julian Wojtkowski Flag of Poland.svg Poland January 31, 1927 98 years, 313 days
22 Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador February 14, 1927 98 years, 299 days
Gilberto Pereira Lopes Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil
24 Dominic Anthony Marconi Flag of the United States.svg United States March 13, 1927 98 years, 272 days
25 Joseph Pallikaparampil Flag of India.svg India April 10, 1927 98 years, 244 days
26 Luis Pascual Dri Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina April 17, 1927 98 years, 237 days
27 Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil May 25, 1927 98 years, 199 days
28 Joseph Martin Sartoris Flag of the United States.svg United States July 1, 1927 98 years, 162 days
29 Edoardo Rovida Flag of Italy.svg Italy August 26, 1927 98 years, 106 days
30 Abraham Than Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar September 21, 1927 98 years, 80 days
31 Júlio Duarte Langa Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique October 27, 1927 98 years, 44 days
32 Daniel Cronin Flag of the United States.svg United States November 14, 1927 98 years, 26 days
33 Raymond Razakarinvony Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar November 19, 1927 98 years, 21 days
34 Bernhard Kühnel Flag of Peru.svg Peru December 4, 1927 98 years, 6 days
35 Vincenzo Rimedio Flag of Italy.svg Italy December 5, 1927 98 years, 5 days
36 Giovanni Zerbini Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil December 29, 1927 97 years, 346 days
37 Friedrich Wetter Flag of Germany.svg Germany February 20, 1928 97 years, 293 days
38 Robert Joseph Banks Flag of the United States.svg United States February 26, 1928 97 years, 287 days
39 Gerd Dicke Flag of Germany.svg Germany March 28, 1928 97 years, 257 days
40 Allan Chamgwera Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi April 30, 1928 97 years, 224 days
41 Jacques Despierre Flag of France.svg France May 6, 1928 97 years, 218 days
42 Pierre Mouallem Flag of Israel.svg Israel May 10, 1928 97 years, 214 days
43 Charles Louis Joseph Vandame Flag of Chad.svg Chad June 4, 1928 97 years, 189 days
44 Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil July 24, 1928 97 years, 139 days
45 Philippe Bär Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands July 29, 1928 97 years, 134 days
46 Ignacio Trejos Picado Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica July 31, 1928 97 years, 132 days
47 Peter Chung Hoan Ting Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia September 10, 1928 97 years, 91 days
48 Owen Dolan Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand September 30, 1928 97 years, 71 days
49 István Katona Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary October 3, 1928 97 years, 68 days
50 Francisco Barroso Filho Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil October 8, 1928 97 years, 63 days
51 Ernest Simoni Flag of Albania.svg Albania October 18, 1928 97 years, 53 days
52 Lucas Liu Hsien-tang Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan December 21, 1928 96 years, 354 days
53 Walter Brandmüller Flag of Germany.svg Germany January 5, 1929 96 years, 339 days
54 Melchior Shi Hongzhen Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China January 7, 1929 96 years, 337 days
55 Fritz Lobinger Flag of Germany.svg Germany January 22, 1929 96 years, 322 days
56 Adalberto Paulo da Silva Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil January 25, 1929 96 years, 319 days
Michael Michai Kitbunchu Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand
58 Leo Nowak Flag of Germany.svg Germany March 17, 1929 96 years, 268 days
59 Pier Giuliano Tiddia Flag of Italy.svg Italy June 13, 1929 96 years, 180 days
60 Paolo Gillet Flag of Italy.svg Italy July 8, 1929 96 years, 155 days
61 René Dupont Flag of France.svg France September 2, 1929 96 years, 99 days
62 Patricio Infante Alfonso Flag of Chile.svg Chile October 9, 1929 96 years, 62 days
63 Angelo Mascheroni Flag of Italy.svg Italy October 13, 1929 96 years, 58 days
64 Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba October 18, 1929 96 years, 53 days
65 Antônio de Souza Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil October 21, 1929 96 years, 50 days
66 Vincenzo Zarri Flag of Italy.svg Italy October 23, 1929 96 years, 48 days
67 Paul-Marie Gillaume Flag of France.svg France October 31, 1929 96 years, 40 days
68 Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia December 2, 1929 96 years, 8 days
69 José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil December 3, 1929 96 years, 7 days
70 Ramón Buxarrais Ventura Flag of Spain.svg Spain December 12, 1929 95 years, 363 days
71 Victorio Oliver Domingo Flag of Spain.svg Spain December 23, 1929 95 years, 352 days
72 Miguel Caviedes Flag of Chile.svg Chile January 30, 1930 95 years, 314 days
73 Jean Bonfils Flag of France.svg France February 15, 1930 95 years, 298 days
74 Pedro Dean Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines February 21, 1930 95 years, 292 days
75 David Cremin Flag of Australia.svg Australia February 22, 1930 95 years, 291 days
76 Francesco Cuccarese Flag of Italy.svg Italy March 8, 1930 95 years, 277 days
77 Adam Maida Flag of the United States.svg United States March 18, 1930 95 years, 267 days
78 Julián Herranz Casado Flag of Spain.svg Spain March 31, 1930 95 years, 254 days
79 Juan Luis Ysern de Arce Flag of Chile.svg Chile May 2, 1930 95 years, 222 days
80 William Edwin Franklin Flag of the United States.svg United States May 3, 1930 95 years, 221 days
81 Giuseppe Di Falco Flag of Italy.svg Italy May 13, 1930 95 years, 211 days
82 José da Silva Chaves Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil May 15, 1930 95 years, 209 days
Lawrence Sabatini Flag of Canada.svg Canada
84 William J. Winter Flag of the United States.svg United States May 20, 1930 95 years, 204 days
85 Emmanuel Milingo Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia June 13, 1930 95 years, 180 days
86 Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal June 16, 1930 95 years, 177 days
87 Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq June 20, 1930 95 years, 173 days
88 Orlando Octacílio Dotti Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil June 22, 1930 95 years, 171 days
89 Raúl Corriveau Flag of Honduras (2022–present).svg Honduras June 27, 1930 95 years, 166 days
90 Émile Marcus Flag of France.svg France June 29, 1930 95 years, 164 days
91 Theodore McCarrick Flag of the United States.svg United States July 7, 1930 95 years, 156 days
92 Thadeu Gomes Canellas Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil July 28, 1930 95 years, 135 days
93 Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon August 8, 1930 95 years, 124 days
John Joseph Leibrecht Flag of the United States.svg United States
95 Teodoro de Faria Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal August 24, 1930 95 years, 108 days
96 Johannes Antonius de Kok Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands August 28, 1930 95 years, 104 days
97 Paul Poupard Flag of France.svg France August 30, 1930 95 years, 102 days
98 Godefroid Mukeng’a Kalond Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg D. R. Congo August 31, 1930 95 years, 101 days
99 Sylvester Donovan Ryan Flag of the United States.svg United States September 3, 1930 95 years, 98 days
100 Salvatore de Giorgi Flag of Italy.svg Italy September 6, 1930 95 years, 95 days