List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals
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This is a list of the 99 oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals (in bold those who are Cardinals, in bold and Bold text the Pope emeritus). The current breakdown of the 99 persons are the Pope Emeritus, 10 cardinals and 88 bishops.
Rank | Bishop or Cardinal | Date of birth | Ordained Priest | Consecrated Bishop | Country of origin | Age (years, days) |
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1 | Laurent Noël | March 19, 1920 | June 16, 1944 | August 29, 1963 | Canada | 101 years, 190 days |
2 | John Bai Ningxian | January 20, 1921 | June 20, 1951 | May 7, 1997 | China | 100 years, 248 days |
3 | Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla | February 1, 1921 | August 3, 1949 | May 4, 1971 | Mexico | 100 years, 236 days |
4 | Joseph Hou Guoyang | 1922 | 1951 | October 8, 1989 | China | 99–98 years |
5 | José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | January 1, 1922 | May 28, 1946 | September 8, 1961 | Mexico | 99 years, 267 days |
6 | Bruno Foresti | May 6, 1923 | April 7, 1946 | January 12, 1975 | Italy | 98 years, 142 days |
7 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | May 23, 1959 | January 25, 1972 | United States | 98 years, 108 days |
8 | Eloy Tato Losada | September 6, 1923 | June 15, 1946 | July 25, 1960 | Spain | 98 years, 19 days |
9 | Giuseppe Casale | September 28, 1923 | February 3, 1946 | December 8, 1974 | Italy | 97 years, 362 days |
10 | Luigi Bettazzi | November 26, 1923 | August 4, 1946 | October 4, 1963 | Italy | 97 years, 303 days |
11 | Augusto Lauro | November 29, 1923 | June 29, 1947 | October 28, 1975 | Italy | 97 years, 300 days |
12 | Thomas Zhao Duomo | 1924 | 1951 | February 17, 2004 | China | 97–96 years |
13 | Stanisław Szymecki | January 26, 1924 | July 3, 1947 | April 12, 1981 | Poland | 97 years, 242 days |
14 | Remi De Roo | February 24, 1924 | June 8, 1950 | December 14, 1962 | Canada | 97 years, 213 days |
15 | Jozef Tomko | March 11, 1924 | March 12, 1949 | September 15, 1979 | Slovakia | 97 years, 198 days |
16 | Peter Takaaki Hirayama | March 31, 1924 | March 19, 1957 | January 25, 1970 | Japan | 97 years, 178 days |
17 | Settimio Todisco | May 10, 1924 | July 27, 1947 | February 15, 1970 | Italy | 97 years, 138 days |
18 | Daniel Verstraete | July 31, 1924 | February 19, 1950 | May 14, 1978 | South Africa | 97 years, 56 days |
19 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | December 5, 1948 | November 6, 1966 | Brazil | 96 years, 357 days |
20 | Albert Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | February 6, 1949 | May 18, 1986 | Belgium | 96 years, 327 days |
21 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | April 1, 1951 | February 2, 1983 | Spain | 96 years, 322 days |
22 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | March 20, 1950 | October 20, 1963 | South Korea | 96 years, 321 days |
23 | John Aloysius O'Mara | November 17, 1924 | June 1, 1951 | June 29, 1976 | United States | 96 years, 312 days |
24 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | May 22, 1948 | August 26, 1975 | Italy | 96 years, 286 days |
25 | Alexandre do Nascimento | March 1, 1925 | December 20, 1952 | August 31, 1975 | Angola | 96 years, 208 days |
26 | João Evangelista Martins Terra | March 7, 1925 | December 22, 1956 | November 20, 1988 | Brazil | 96 years, 202 days |
27 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | June 29, 1953 | April 17, 1978 | Canada | 96 years, 150 days |
28 | Ignatius Paul Pinto | May 18, 1925 | August 24, 1952 | January 31, 1989 | India | 96 years, 130 days |
29 | Ernest Bertrand Boland | July 10, 1925 | June 9, 1955 | July 25, 1966 | United States | 96 years, 77 days |
30 | Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand | July 11, 1925 | October 10, 1948 | September 14, 1975 | France | 96 years, 76 days |
31 | Francisco Álvarez Martínez | July 14, 1925 | June 11, 1950 | June 3, 1973 | Spain | 96 years, 73 days |
32 | Joseph Gabriel Fernandez | September 16, 1925 | March 19, 1949 | May 14, 1978 | India | 96 years, 9 days |
33 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | March 27, 1948 | June 30, 1974 | Italy | 96 years, 2 days |
34 | Joseph Hitti | September 30, 1925 | March 24, 1951 | January 6, 1991 | Lebanon | 95 years, 360 days |
35 | Didier-Léon Marchand | November 1, 1925 | May 19, 1951 | November 5, 1978 | France | 95 years, 328 days |
36 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | March 29, 1952 | October 5, 1975 | France | 95 years, 308 days |
37 | Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes | December 9, 1925 | December 17, 1949 | December 17, 1977 | Guatemala | 95 years, 290 days |
38 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | May 1, 1956 | April 11, 1988 | United States | 95 years, 288 days |
39 | John Huo Cheng | February 1, 1926 | May 14, 1954 | September 4, 1991 | China | 95 years, 236 days |
40 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | February 7, 1926 | December 8, 1954 | August 15, 1977 | Argentina | 95 years, 230 days |
41 | Luigi De Magistris | February 23, 1926 | April 12, 1952 | April 28, 1996 | Italy | 95 years, 214 days |
42 | Gabino Díaz Merchán | February 26, 1926 | July 13, 1952 | August 22, 1965 | Spain | 95 years, 211 days |
43 | Maurice Taylor | May 5, 1926 | July 2, 1950 | June 9, 1981 | United Kingdom | 95 years, 143 days |
44 | Walter Ivan de Azevedo | May 8, 1926 | December 8, 1953 | July 27, 1986 | Brazil | 95 years, 140 days |
45 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | December 2, 1951 | May 24, 1981 | Brazil | 95 years, 101 days |
46 | Jānis Cakuls | July 4, 1926 | September 18, 1949 | December 11, 1982 | Latvia | 95 years, 83 days |
47 | Emanuele Catarinicchia | July 12, 1926 | April 2, 1949 | December 17, 1978 | Italy | 95 years, 75 days |
48 | James Chan Soon Cheong | July 26, 1926 | August 6, 1959 | June 8, 1973 | Malaysia | 95 years, 61 days |
49 | Heitor de Araújo Sales | July 29, 1926 | December 3, 1950 | June 16, 1978 | Brazil | 95 years, 58 days |
50 | Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | August 11, 1926 | December 6, 1950 | August 28, 1966 | Brazil | 95 years, 45 days |
51 | Agostino Cacciavillan | August 14, 1926 | June 26, 1949 | February 21, 1976 | Italy | 95 years, 42 days |
52 | Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | August 24, 1926 | June 29, 1951 | April 29, 1973 | Ecuador | 95 years, 32 days |
53 | Lawrence Donald Soens | August 26, 1926 | May 6, 1950 | August 17, 1983 | United States | 95 years, 30 days |
54 | Gilbert Sheldon | September 20, 1926 | February 28, 1953 | June 11, 1976 | United States | 95 years, 5 days |
55 | Ernesto Togni | October 6, 1926 | May 7, 1950 | September 17, 1978 | Switzerland | 94 years, 354 days |
56 | Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi | November 21, 1926 | December 17, 1950 | December 10, 1982 | Italy | 94 years, 308 days |
57 | Emmanuel Wamala | December 15, 1926 | December 21, 1957 | November 22, 1981 | Uganda | 94 years, 284 days |
58 | Michael Pak Jeong-il | December 18, 1926 | November 23, 1958 | May 31, 1977 | South Korea | 94 years, 281 days |
59 | Paolo Magnani | December 31, 1926 | June 29, 1951 | September 10, 1977 | Italy | 94 years, 268 days |
60 | Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên | January 7, 1927 | May 14, 1960 | November 19, 1992 | Vietnam | 94 years, 261 days |
61 | Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | January 25, 1927 | August 22, 1953 | January 6, 1984 | South Korea | 94 years, 243 days |
62 | Julian Wojtkowski | January 31, 1927 | June 25, 1950 | August 22, 1969 | Poland | 94 years, 237 days |
63 / 64 | Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno | February 14, 1927 | June 29, 1953 | March 3, 1990 | Ecuador | 94 years, 223 days |
Gilberto Pereira Lopes | February 14, 1927 | December 14, 1949 | December 18, 1969 | Brazil | 94 years, 223 days | |
65 | Senan Louis O’Donnell | February 24, 1927 | July 17, 1955 | November 28, 1993 | Ireland | 94 years, 213 days |
66 | Dominic Anthony Marconi | March 13, 1927 | May 30, 1953 | June 25, 1976 | United States | 94 years, 196 days |
67 | Rembert George Weakland | April 2, 1927 | June 24, 1951 | September 20, 1977 | United States | 94 years, 176 days |
68 | Joseph Pallikaparampil | April 10, 1927 | November 23, 1958 | August 15, 1973 | India | 94 years, 168 days |
69 | Joseph Ratzinger | April 16, 1927 | June 29, 1951 | May 28, 1977 | Germany | 94 years, 162 days |
70 | José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui | May 20, 1927 | November 20, 1949 | October 25, 1977 | Colombia | 94 years, 128 days |
71 | Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral | May 25, 1927 | December 8, 1954 | April 20, 1975 | Brazil | 94 years, 123 days |
72 | Raul Nicolau Gonçalves | June 15, 1927 | December 21, 1950 | March 5, 1967 | India | 94 years, 102 days |
73 | Joseph Martin Sartoris | July 1, 1927 | May 30, 1953 | March 19, 1994 | United States | 94 years, 86 days |
74 | Howard George Tripp | July 3, 1927 | May 31, 1953 | January 30, 1980 | United Kingdom | 94 years, 84 days |
75 | James Timlin | August 5, 1927 | July 16, 1951 | September 21, 1976 | United States | 94 years, 51 days |
76 | Alberto Tricarico | August 10, 1927 | January 6, 1950 | April 27, 1987 | Italy | 94 years, 46 days |
77 | Kazimierz Romaniuk | August 21, 1927 | December 16, 1951 | March 4, 1982 | Poland | 94 years, 35 days |
78 | Edoardo Rovida | August 26, 1927 | June 29, 1950 | October 10, 1971 | Italy | 94 years, 30 days |
79 | Abraham Than | September 21, 1927 | September 22, 1957 | May 11, 1969 | Myanmar | 94 years, 4 days |
80 | Abraham Nehmé | October 8, 1927 | January 3, 1954 | October 26, 1986 | Syria | 93 years, 352 days |
81 | Raymond E. Goedert | October 15, 1927 | May 1, 1952 | August 29, 1991 | United States | 93 years, 345 days |
82 | Júlio Duarte Langa | October 27, 1927 | June 9, 1957 | October 24, 1976 | Mozambique | 93 years, 333 days |
83 | Pierre Trân Thanh Chung | November 10, 1927 | May 25, 1955 | November 22, 1981 | Vietnam | 93 years, 319 days |
84 | Daniel A. Cronin | November 14, 1927 | December 20, 1952 | September 12, 1968 | United States | 93 years, 315 days |
85 | Raymond Razakarinvony | November 19, 1927 | July 27, 1956 | May 17, 1998 | Madagascar | 93 years, 310 days |
86 | Angelo Sodano | November 23, 1927 | September 23, 1950 | January 15, 1978 | Italy | 93 years, 306 days |
87 | Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer | December 4, 1927 | August 6, 1955 | April 27, 1983 | Germany | 93 years, 295 days |
88 | Vincenzo Rimedio | December 5, 1927 | July 22, 1951 | October 28, 1982 | Italy | 93 years, 294 days |
89 | Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz | December 28, 1927 | June 29, 1950 | January 5, 1989 | Peru | 93 years, 271 days |
90 | Giovanni Zerbini | December 29, 1927 | June 29, 1956 | February 19, 1995 | Italy | 93 years, 270 days |
91 | Friedrich Wetter | February 20, 1928 | October 10, 1953 | June 29, 1968 | Germany | 93 years, 217 days |
92 | Robert Joseph Banks | February 26, 1928 | December 20, 1952 | September 19, 1985 | United States | 93 years, 211 days |
93 | Klaus Dick | February 27, 1928 | February 24, 1953 | May 19, 1975 | Germany | 93 years, 210 days |
94 | John Stephen Cummins | March 3, 1928 | January 24, 1953 | May 16, 1974 | United States | 93 years, 206 days |
95 | Gerd Dicke | March 28, 1928 | July 25, 1952 | February 16, 1970 | Germany | 93 years, 199 days |
96 / 97 | Alfred Kleinermeilert | March 31, 1928 | October 10, 1953 | May 3, 1968 | Germany | 93 years, 196 days |
Peter Henrici | March 31, 1928 | July 23, 1958 | May 31, 1993 | Switzerland | 93 years, 196 days | |
98 | Antonino Orrù | April 23, 1928 | July 13, 1952 | May 13, 1990 | Italy | 93 years, 176 days |
99 | Allan Chamwera | April 30, 1928 | September 7, 1957 | May 31, 1981 | Malawi | 93 yeats, 169 days |
- ^ In this list not included Mgr Phocas Nikwigize, Bishop Emeritus of Ruhengeri. Mgr Nikwigize was born in 1919. He was kidnapped with others near Goma on 27 November 1996 by members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. None of the people who were kidnapped around this time were not found alive. It would have been assassinated on November 30, 1996, but the Holy See did not declare him dead because his body has not been found and there has been no eyewitness testimony to his death. However, his death has been reported on several occasions. It is inconceivable that he is still alive but that he has not been seen since November 1996.