List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals

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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 8 cardinals and 92 bishops.

Rank Bishop or Cardinal Date of birth Age (years, days) Ordained Priest Consecrated Bishop Country of origin
1 José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra January 1, 1922 102 years, 270 days May 28, 1946 September 8, 1961 Mexico
2 René Henry Gracida June 9, 1923 101 years, 110 days May 23, 1959 January 25, 1972 United States
3 Giuseppe Casale September 28, 1923 100 years, 365 days February 3, 1946 December 8, 1974 Italy
4 Luigi Bettazzi November 26, 1923 100 years, 306 days August 4, 1946 October 4, 1963 Italy
5 Augusto Lauro November 29, 1923 100 years, 303 days June 29, 1947 October 28, 1975 Italy
6 Thomas Zhao Duomo 1924 98–99 years 1951 February 17, 2004 China
7 Stanisław Szymecki January 26, 1924 100 years, 245 days July 3, 1947 April 12, 1981 Poland
8 Peter Takaaki Hirayama March 31, 1924 100 years, 180 days March 19, 1957 January 25, 1970 Japan
9 Settimio Todisco May 10, 1924 100 years, 140 days July 27, 1947 February 15, 1970 Italy
10 Daniel Verstraete July 31, 1924 100 years, 58 days February 19, 1950 May 14, 1978 South Africa
11 Manuel Edmilson da Cruz October 3, 1924 99 years, 360 days December 5, 1948 November 6, 1966 Brazil
12 Albert Houssiau November 2, 1924 99 years, 330 days February 6, 1949 May 18, 1986 Belgium
13 Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña November 7, 1924 99 years, 325 days April 1, 1951 February 2, 1983 Spain
14 Victorinus Youn Kong-hi November 8, 1924 99 years, 324 days March 20, 1950 October 20, 1963 South Korea
15 Gaetano Bonicelli December 13, 1924 99 years, 289 days May 22, 1948 August 26, 1975 Italy
16 Alexandre do Nascimento March 1, 1925 99 years, 210 days December 20, 1952 August 31, 1975 Angola
17 James Hector MacDonald April 28, 1925 99 years, 152 days June 29, 1953 April 17, 1978 Canada
18 Ernest Bertrand Boland July 10, 1925 99 years, 79 days June 9, 1955 July 25, 1966 United States
19 Angelo Acerbi September 23, 1925 99 years, 4 days March 27, 1948 June 30, 1974 Italy
20 Jacques de Saint-Blanquat November 21, 1925 98 years, 311 days March 29, 1952 October 5, 1975 France
21 John R. Gorman December 11, 1925 98 years, 291 days May 1, 1956 April 11, 1988 United States
22 Estanislao Esteban Karlic February 7, 1926 98 years, 233 days December 8, 1954 August 15, 1977 Argentina
23 Maurice Taylor May 5, 1926 98 years, 145 days July 2, 1950 June 9, 1981 United Kingdom
24 Walter Ivan de Azevedo May 8, 1926 98 years, 142 days December 8, 1953 July 27, 1986 Brazil
25 Hildebrando Mendes Costa June 16, 1926 98 years, 103 days December 2, 1951 May 24, 1981 Brazil
26 Emanuele Catarinicchia July 12, 1926 98 years, 77 days April 2, 1949 December 17, 1978 Italy
27 James Chan Soon Cheong July 26, 1926 98 years, 63 days August 6, 1959 June 8, 1973 Malaysia
28 Heitor de Araújo Sales July 29, 1926 98 years, 60 days December 3, 1950 June 16, 1978 Brazil
29 Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto August 11, 1926 98 years, 47 days December 6, 1950 August 28, 1966 Brazil
30 Raúl Holguer López Mayorga August 24, 1926 98 years, 34 days June 29, 1951 April 29, 1973 Ecuador
31 Gilbert Sheldon September 20, 1926 98 years, 7 days February 28, 1953 June 11, 1976 United States
32 Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi November 21, 1926 97 years, 311 days December 17, 1950 December 10, 1982 Italy
33 Emmanuel Wamala December 15, 1926 97 years, 287 days December 21, 1957 November 22, 1981 Uganda
34 Michael Pak Jeong-il December 18, 1926 97 years, 284 days November 23, 1958 May 31, 1977 South Korea
35 Paolo Magnani December 31, 1926 97 years, 271 days June 29, 1951 September 10, 1977 Italy
36 Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol January 25, 1927 97 years, 246 days August 22, 1953 January 6, 1984 South Korea
37 Julian Wojtkowski January 31, 1927 97 years, 240 days June 25, 1950 August 22, 1969 Poland
38 / 39 Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno February 14, 1927 97 years, 226 days June 29, 1953 March 3, 1990 Ecuador
Gilberto Pereira Lopes December 14, 1949 December 18, 1969 Brazil
40 Senan Louis O'Donnell February 24, 1927 97 years, 216 days July 17, 1955 November 28, 1993 Ireland
41 Dominic Anthony Marconi March 13, 1927 97 years, 198 days May 30, 1953 June 25, 1976 United States
42 Joseph Pallikaparampil April 10, 1927 97 years, 170 days November 23, 1958 August 15, 1973 India
43 José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui May 20, 1927 97 years, 130 days November 20, 1949 October 25, 1977 Colombia
44 Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral May 25, 1927 97 years, 125 days December 8, 1954 April 20, 1975 Brazil
45 Joseph Martin Sartoris July 1, 1927 97 years, 88 days May 30, 1953 March 19, 1994 United States
46 James Timlin August 5, 1927 97 years, 53 days July 16, 1951 September 21, 1976 United States
47 Alberto Tricarico August 10, 1927 97 years, 48 days January 6, 1950 April 27, 1987 Italy
48 Kazimierz Romaniuk August 21, 1927 97 years, 37 days December 16, 1951 March 4, 1982 Poland
49 Edoardo Rovida August 26, 1927 97 years, 32 days June 29, 1950 October 10, 1971 Italy
50 Abraham Than September 21, 1927 97 years, 6 days September 22, 1957 May 11, 1969 Myanmar
51 Raymond E. Goedert October 15, 1927 96 years, 348 days May 1, 1952 August 29, 1991 United States
52 Júlio Duarte Langa October 27, 1927 96 years, 336 days June 9, 1957 October 24, 1976 Mozambique
53 Pierre Trân Thanh Chung November 10, 1927 96 years, 322 days May 25, 1955 November 22, 1981 Vietnam
54 Daniel Cronin November 14, 1927 96 years, 318 days December 20, 1952 September 12, 1968 United States
55 Raymond Razakarinvony November 19, 1927 96 years, 313 days July 27, 1956 May 17, 1998 Madagascar
56 Bernhard Kühnel December 4, 1927 96 years, 298 days August 6, 1955 April 27, 1983 Germany
57 Vincenzo Rimedio December 5, 1927 96 years, 297 days July 22, 1951 October 28, 1982 Italy
58 Giovanni Zerbini December 29, 1927 96 years, 273 days June 29, 1956 February 19, 1995 Italy
59 Friedrich Wetter February 20, 1928 96 years, 220 days October 10, 1953 June 29, 1968 Germany
60 Robert Joseph Banks February 26, 1928 96 years, 214 days December 20, 1952 September 19, 1985 United States
61 Klaus Dick February 27, 1928 96 years, 213 days February 24, 1953 May 19, 1975 Germany
62 John Stephen Cummins March 3, 1928 96 years, 208 days January 24, 1953 May 16, 1974 United States
63 Gerd Dicke March 28, 1928 96 years, 183 days July 25, 1952 February 16, 1970 Germany
64 Alfred Kleinermeilert March 30, 1928 96 years, 181 days October 10, 1953 May 3, 1968 Germany
65 Peter Henrici March 31, 1928 96 years, 180 days July 23, 1958 May 31, 1993 Switzerland
66 Allan Chamgwera April 30, 1928 96 years, 150 days September 7, 1957 May 31, 1981 Malawi
67 Louis Edward Gelineau May 3, 1928 96 years, 147 days June 5, 1953 January 26, 1972 United States
68 Jacques Despierre May 6, 1928 96 years, 144 days June 24, 1952 October 10, 1982 France
69 Pierre Mouallem May 10, 1928 96 years, 140 days November 21, 1955 June 29, 1990 Israel
70 Daniel Patrick Reilly May 12, 1928 96 years, 138 days May 30, 1953 August 6, 1975 United States
71 Charles Louis Joseph Vandame June 4, 1928 96 years, 115 days September 7, 1960 January 6, 1982 Chad
72 Alphonsus Mathias June 22, 1928 96 years, 97 days August 24, 1954 February 5, 1964 India
73 Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân June 24, 1928 96 years, 95 days September 2, 1955 April 30, 1975 Vietnam
74 Maurice Fréchard July 3, 1928 96 years, 86 days July 3, 1955 October 27, 1996 France
75 Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque July 24, 1928 96 years, 65 days December 8, 1953 May 5, 1985 Brazil
76 Philippe Bär July 29, 1928 96 years, 60 days July 26, 1959 March 20, 1982 Netherlands
77 Ignacio Trejos Picado July 31, 1928 96 years, 58 days March 8, 1952 March 8, 1968 Costa Rica
78 Peter Chung Hoan Ting September 10, 1928 96 years, 17 days September 26, 1954 November 15, 1970 Malaysia
79 Joseph John Gerry September 12, 1928 96 years, 15 days June 12, 1954 April 21, 1986 United States
80 Giuseppe Germano Bernardini September 27, 1928 96 years, 0 days March 21, 1953 April 9, 1983 Türkiye
81 Owen Dolan September 30, 1928 95 years, 363 days July 21, 1954 December 10, 1995 New Zealand
82 István Katona October 3, 1928 95 years, 360 days June 7, 1953 December 9, 1989 Hungary
83 Francisco Barroso Filho October 8, 1928 95 years, 355 days December 1, 1957 March 19, 1984 Brazil
84 José Francisco Moreira dos Santos October 12, 1928 95 years, 351 days January 20, 1952 April 30, 1967 Portugal
85 Ernest Simoni October 18, 1928 95 years, 345 days April 7, 1956 Albania
86 Lucas Liu Hsien-tang December 21, 1928 95 years, 281 days November 30, 1956 January 1, 1981 Taiwan
87 Adam Exner December 24, 1928 95 years, 278 days July 7, 1957 March 12, 1974 Canada
88 Anton Pain Ratu January 2, 1929 95 years, 269 days August 17, 1958 September 21, 1982 Indonesia
89 Walter Brandmüller January 5, 1929 95 years, 266 days July 26, 1953 November 13, 2010 Germany
90 Melchior Shi Hongzhen January 7, 1929 95 years, 264 days July 4, 1954 June 15, 1982 China
91 Fritz Lobinger January 22, 1929 95 years, 249 days June 29, 1955 February 27, 1988 Germany
92 / 93 Adalberto Paulo da Silva January 25, 1929 95 years, 246 days December 8, 1956 August 3, 1975 Brazil
Michael Michai Kitbunchu December 20, 1959 June 3, 1973 Thailand
94 Edgerton Roland Clarke February 14, 1929 95 years, 226 days February 2, 1960 November 30, 1967 Jamaica
95 Jorge Bernal Vargas February 28, 1929 95 years, 212 days September 15, 1957 March 19, 1974 Mexico
96 Leo Nowak March 17, 1929 95 years, 194 days May 10, 1956 March 24, 1990 Germany
97 Georges Gilson May 30, 1929 95 years, 120 days April 20, 1957 October 9, 1976 France
98 Pier Giuliano Tiddia June 13, 1929 95 years, 106 days December 16, 1951 February 2, 1975 Italy
99 Paolo Gillet July 8, 1929 95 years, 81 days September 19, 1953 January 6, 1994 Italy
100 René Dupont September 2, 1929 95 years, 25 days June 29, 1953 July 25, 1969 France