List of longest-living cardinals
This article lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals, born no earlier than 1800, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Cardinal (who was born after 1800 was Italian Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla, who lived to 100 years 224 days. The Second Longest-lived cardinal being Colombian José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguezho lived to 100 years 197 days, just 27 days shy of tying Cardinal Capovilla's age.
List
Rank | Name | Country | Birth | Death | Age |
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1 | Loris Francesco Capovilla | Italy | 14 October 1915 | 26 May 2016 | 100 years 224 days |
2 | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez | Colombia | 18 February 1919 | 3 September 2019 | 100 years 197 days |
3 | Ersilio Tonini | Italy | 20 July 1914 | 28 July 2013 | 99 years 8 days |
4 | Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir | Lebanon | 15 May 1920 | 12 May 2019 | 98 years, 362 days |
5 | Paul Augustin Mayer | Germany | 23 May 1911 | 30 April 2010 | 98 years 342 days |
6 | Ignatius Kung Pin-mei | China | 2 August 1901 | 12 March 2000 | 98 years, 223 days |
7 | Jozef Tomko | Czechoslovakia | 11 March 1924 | 8 August 2022 | 98 years 150 days |
8 | Fiorenzo Angelini | Italy | 1 August 1916 | 22 November 2014 | 98 years, 113 days |
9 | Alexandre do Nascimento | Angola | 1 March 1925 | Alive | 98 years 90 days |
10 | Albert Vanhoye | France | 24 July 1923 | 29 July 2021 | 98 years 59 days |
11 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | Argentina | 7 February 1926 | Alive | 97 years 112 days |
12 | Emmanuel Wamala | Uganda | 15 December 1926 | Alive | 97 years 166 days |
13 | Henryk Gulbinowicz | Poland | 17 October 1923 | 16 November 2020) | 97 years 30 days |
14 | Roger Etchegaray | France | 25 September 1922 | 4 September 2019 | 96 years 344 days |
15 | Edward Cassidy | Australia | 5 July 1924 | 10 April 2021 | 96 years 279 days |
16 | Kazimierz Świątek | Belarus | 21 October 1914 | 21 July 2011 | 96 years 273 days |
17 | Domenico Bartolucci | Italy | 7 May 1917 | 11 November 2013 | 96 years, 188 days |
18 | José Freire Falcão | Brazil | 23 October 1925 | 26 September 2021 | 95 years 338 days |
19 | Giovanni Canestri | Italy | 30 September 1918 | 29 April 2015 | 96 years, 211 days |
20 | Francisco Álvarez Martínez | Spain | 14 July 1925 | 5 January 2022 | 96 years 175 days |
23 | Luigi De Magistris | Italy | 23 February 1926 | 16 February 2022 | 95 years 358 days |
22 | Achille Silvestrini | Italy | 25 October 1923 | 29 August 2019 | 95 years, 310 days |
21 | Agostino Cacciavillan | Italy | 14 August 1926 | 5 March 2022 | 95 years 204 days |
24 | Júlio Duarte Langa | Mozambique | 27 October 1927 | Alive | 95 years 155 days |
25 | Friedrich Wetter | Germany | 20 February 1928 | Alive | 95 years 99 days |
26 | Paulo Evaristo Arns | Brazil | 14 September 1921 | 14 December 2016 | 95 years, 91 days |
27 | Serafim Fernandes de Araújo | Brazil | 13 August 1924 | 8 October 2019 | 95 years, 56 days |
28 | Corrado Ursi | Italy | 26 July 1908 | 29 August 2003 | 95 years, 34 days |
29 | Jorge Medina Estévez | Chile | 23 December 1926 | 3 October 2021 | 94 years 284 days |
30 | Egano Righi-Lambertini | Italy | 22 February 1906 | 4 October 2000 | 94 years, 225 days |
31 | Ernest Simoni | Albania | 18 October 1928 | Alive | 94 years 224 days |
32 | Angelo Sodano | Italy | 23 November 1927 | 27 May 2022 | 94 years 205 days |
33 | Walter Brandmüller | Germany | 5 January 1929 | Alive | 94 years 145 days |
34 | Eduardo Martínez Somalo | Spain | 31 March 1927 | 10 August 2021 | 94 years 142 days |
35 | Michael Michai Kitbunchu | Thailand | 25 January 1929 | Alive | 94 years 125 days |
36 | Giovanni Cheli | Italy | 4 October 1918 | 8 February 2013 | 94 years 122 days |
37 | Gilberto Agustoni | italy | 26 July 1922 | 13 January 2017 | 94 years, 171 days |
38 | Giuseppe Sensi | Italy | 27 May 1907 | 26 July 2001 | 94 years, 60 days |
39 | Marian Jaworski | Poland | 21 August 1926 | 5 September 2020 | 94 years 13 days |
40 | Carlo Furno | Italy | 2 December 1921 | 9 December 2015 | 94 years, 7 days |
41 | Prosper Grech | Malta | 24 December 1925 | 30 December 2019 | 94 years, 6 days |
42 | Teodolfo Mertel | Italy | 9 February 1806 | 11 July 1899 | 93 years 152 days |
44 | Roberto Tucci | Italy | 19 April 1921 | 14 April 2015 | 93 years, 360 days |
44 | Georges Cottier | Switzerland | 25 April 1922 | 31 March 2016 | 93 years, 341 days |
45 | Paolo Bertoli | Italy | 1 February 1908 | 8 November 2001 | 93 years, 280 days |
46 | José Manuel Estepa Llaurens | Spain | 1 January 1926 | 21 July 2019 | 93 years, 201 days |
47 | Ignatius Pimenta | Italy | 1 March 1920 | 19 July 2013 | 93 years 140 days |
48 | Adam Joseph Maida | United States | 18 March 1938 | Alive | 93 years 73 days |
49 | Thomas Stafford Williams | United States | 20 March 1930 | Alive | 93 years 61 days |
50 | Julien Ries | Belgium | 19 April 1920 | 23 February 2013 | 92 years 310 days |
51 | Luigi Poggi | Italy | 25 November 1917 | 4 May 2010 | 92 years 160 days |
52 | Silvano Piovanelli | Italy | 21 February 1924 | 9 July 2016 | 92 years 139 days |
53 | Giuseppe Casoria | Italy | 1 October 1908 | 8 February 2001 | 92 years, 130 days |
54 | Miguel Obando y Bravo | Nicaraguan | 2 February 1926 | 3 June 2018 | 92 years, 121 days |
55 | Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo | Italy | 27 August 1925 | 19 November 2017 | 92 years, 84 days |
56 | José Tomás Sánchez | Philippines | 17 March 1920 | 9 March 2012 | 91 years 358 days |
57 | Eugenio de Araujo Sales | Brazil | 8 November 1920 | 9 July 2012 | 91 years 244 days |
58 | Sebastian Koto Khoarai | Lesotho | 11 September 1929 | 17 April 2021 | 91 years 219 days |