List of longest-living cardinals
This article lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals (post-1800),, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Cardinal was Corrado Bafile, of Portugal who lived between the ages of 101 years, 214 days.
List
Rank | Cardinal | Country | Date of Birth | Date of Death | Age | Replacing |
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1 | Corrado Bafile | Italy | 1903 | 2005 | 101 years, 214 days | Original |
2 | Loris Francesco Capovilla | Italy | 1915 | 2016 | 100 years, 214 days | Peter Proeku Dery |
3 | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez | Colombia | 1919 | 2019 | 100 years, 197 days | Juan Francisco Frenso |
4 | Ersilio Tonini | Italy | 1914 | 2013 | 99 years, 8 days | Francesco Bracci |
5 | Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir | Lebanon | 1920 | 2019 | 98 years, 362 days | Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira |
6 | Paul Augustin Mayer | Germany | 1911 | 2010 | 98 years, 342 days | Anthony Peter Khoraish |
7 | Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei | China | 1901 | 2000 | 98 Years, 223 days | Original |
Franz König | Austria | 1905 | 2004 | Pierre Andrieu}} | ||
9 | Jozef Tomko | Czechoslovakia | 1924 | 2022 | 98 years 150 days | Paolo Marella |
10 | Fiorenzo Angelini | Italy | 11916 | 2014 | 98 years, 113 days | Paul-Émile Léger, P.S.S. |
11 | Alexandre do Nascimento | Angola | 1925 | Alive | 99 years, 244 days | Miguel Darío Miranda Gómez |
12 | Albert Vanhoye | France | 1923 | 2021 | 98 years 59 days | Giovanni Colombo |
13 | Paolo Dezza | Italy | 1901 | 1999 | 98 years, 14 days | Original |
14 | Alexandre José María dos Santos, O.F.M. | Mozambique | 1924 | 2021 | 97 years, 195 days | François Marty |
15 | Alfons Maria Stickler | Austria | 1910 | 2007 | 97 years, 111 days | Thomas Cooray, O.M.I. |
16 | Henryk Gulbinowicz | Poland | 1923 | 2020 | 97 years 30 days | John Henry Newman C.O. |
17 | Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M. | Italy | 1896 | 1993 | 96 years, 363 days | Original |
18 | Roger Etchegaray | France | 1922 | 2019 | 96 years, 344 days | Giuseppe Prisco |
19 | Johannes Willebrands | The Netherlands | 1909 | 2008 | 96 years, 331 days | Lawrence Shehan |
20 | Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | Italy | 1851 | 1948 | 96 years, 312 days | Original |
21 | Edward Cassidy | Australia | 1924 | 2021 | 96 years 279 days | Paul Gouyon |
22 | Kazimierz Świątek | Belarus | 1914 | 2011 | 96 years 273 days | Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, O.F.M. |
23 | José da Costa Nuñes | Portugal | 1880 | 1976 | 96 years, 259 days | Original |
24 | Giovanni Canestri | Italy | 1918 | 2015 | 96 years, 211 days | Raúl Silva Henríquez, S.D.B. |
25 | Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. | Poland | 1911 | 2007 | 96 years, 180 days | Federico Cattani Amadori |
26 | Francisco Álvarez Martínez | Spain | 1925 | 2022 | 96 years, 175 days | Michelangelo Celesia, O.S.B. Cas. |
27 | Mikel Koliqi | Albania | 1900 | 1997 | 96 years, 121 days | Original |
28 | Emmanuel Wamala | Uganda | 1926 | Alive | 97 years, 321 days | Silvio Oddi |
29 | Francesco Morano | italy | 1872 | 1968 | 96 years, 34 days | Original |
30 | Luigi De Magistris | Italy | 1926 | 2022 | 95 years 358 days | Urbano Navarrete Cortés, S.J. |
31 | José Freire Falcão | Brazil | 1925 | 2021 | 95 years 338 days | - |
32 | Pietro Parente | Italy | 1891 | 1986 | 95 years, 316 days | Original |
33 | Achille Silvestrini | Italy | 1923 | 2019 | 95 years, 308 days | William Theodore Heard |
34 | Júlio Duarte Langa | Mozambique | 1927 | Alive | 97 years, 4 days | Amleto Giovanni Cicognani |
35 | Agostino Cacciavillan | Italy | 1926 | 2022 | 95 years 204 days | Aurelio Sebatiani |
36 | Henri de Lubac, S.J. | France | 1896 | 1991 | 95 years, 196 days | Original |
37 | Friedrich Wetter | Germany | 1928 | Alive | 96 years, 254 days | - |
38 | Paulo Evaristo Arns | Brazil | 1921 | 2016 | 95 years, 91 days | Raúl Silva Henríquez, S.D.B. |
39 | Serafim Fernandes de Araújo | Brazil | 1924 | 2019 | 95 years, 56 days | Alexandru Todea |
40 | Alberto Di Jorio | Italy | 1884 | 1979 | 95 years, 49 days | |
41 | Corrado Ursi | Italy | 1908 | 2003 | 95 years, 34 days | Federico Tedeschini |
42 | Julijans Vaivods | Latvia | 1895 | 1990 | 94 years, 279 days | Original |
43 | Carlos María de la Torre | Ecuador | 1873 | 1968 | 94 years, 259 days | Original |
44 | Louis-Albert Vachon | Canada | 1912 | 2006 | 94 years, 237 days | Santiago Copello |
45 | Jorge Medina Estévez | Chile | 1926 | 2021 | 94 years, 284 days | Jorge María Mejía |
46 | Ernest Simoni | Albania | 1928 | Alive | 96 years, 4 days | Luigi Di Canossa |
47 | Egano Righi-Lambertini | Italy | 1906 | 2000 | 94 years, 225 days | Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano |
48 | Angelo Sodano | Italy | 1927 | 2022 | 94 years, 205 days | Giovanni Mercati |
49 | Walter Brandmüller | Germany | 1929 | Alive | 95 years, 300 days | Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle |
50 | Eduardo Martínez Somalo | Spain | 1927 | 2021 | 94 years, 142 days | Lorenzo Antonetti |
51 | Michael Michai Kitbunchu | Thailand | 1929 | Alive | 95 years, 280 days | Elio Sgreccia |
52 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | Argentina | 1929 | Alive | 95 years, 267 days | Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.J. |
53 | Giovanni Cheli | Italy | 1918 | 2013 | 94 years 122 days | Salvatore Pappalardo |
54 | Gilberto Agustoni | italy | 1922 | 2017 | 94 years, 171 days | Enrique Pla y Deniel |
55 | Giuseppe Sensi | Italy | 1907 | 2001 | 94 years, 60 days | Arcadio María Larraona, C.M.F. |
56 | Marian Jaworski | Poland | 1926 | 2020 | 94 years 13 days | Giovanni Coppa |
57 | Carlo Furno | Italy | 2015 | 94 years, 7 days | Maurilio Fossati, O.Ss.G.C.N. | |
58 | Prosper Grech | Malta | 1925 | 2019 | 94 years, 6 days | Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy |
59 | Roberto Tucci | Italy | 1921 | 2015 | 93 years, 360 days | Ernesto Corripio Ahumada |
60 | Georges Cottier | Switzerland | 1922 | 2016 | 93 years, 341 days | François-Marie-Benjamin Richard |
61 | John Joseph Carberry | United States | 1904 | 1998 | 93 years, 321 days | |
62 | Paolo Bertoli | Italy | 1908 | 2001 | 93 years, 280 days | Template:Wop |
63 | Opilio Rossi | United States | 1910 | 2004 | 93 years, 271 days | Jules-Géraud Saliège |
64 | Vincenzo Vannutelli | Italy | 1836 | 1930 | 93 years, 216 days | Original |
65 | José Manuel Estepa Llaurens | Spain | 1926 | 2019 | 93 years, 201 days | Tomáš Špidlík, S.J. |
66 | Jean Margéot | Mauritius | 1916 | 2009 | 93 years, 164 days | Vicente Enrique y Tarancón |
67 | Teodolfo Mertel | Italy | 1806 | 1899 | 93 years, 152 days | Original |
68 | Simon Pimenta | Italy | 1920 | 2013 | 93 years 140 days | Carlo Gtrano |
69 | Adam Joseph Maida | United States | 1930 | Alive | 94 years, 227 days | – |
70 | Thomas Stafford Williams | United States | 1930 | Alive | 94 years, 225 days | Yves Congar, {Wp|Order of Preachers|O.P.}} |
71 | Julian Herranz Casado | Spain | 1930 | Alive | 94 years, 214 days | Benedetto Aloisi Masella |
72 | František Tomášek | Czech Republic | 1899 | 1992 | 93 years, 35 days | Original |
73 | Alfredo Scherer | Brazil | 1903 | 1996 | 93 years, 33 days | Original |
74 | Giuseppe Pizzardo | Italy | 1877 | 1970 | 93 years, 19 days | Original |
75 | James Francis McIntyre | United States | 1886 | 1979 | 93 years, 14 days | Original |
Antonio Innocenti | Italy | 1915 | 2008 | Bernardus Johannes Alfrink | ||
77 | Carlo Confalonieri | Italy | 1893 | 1986 | 93 years, 7 days | Original |
78 | Alessandro Verde | Italy | 1865 | 1958 | 93 years, 2 days | Original |
79 | Julien Ries | Belgium | 1920 | 2013 | 92 years 310 days | Alfredo Ottaviani |
80 | Paul Poupard | France | 1930 | Alive | 94 years, 62 days | François-Mariee de Rovérié de Cabrières |
81 | Juan Carlos Aramburu | Argentina | 1912 | 2004 | 92 years, 281 days | Georges Grente |
82 | Salvatore De Giorgi | Italy | 1930 | Alive | 94 years, 55 days | Pietro Pavan |
83 | Janis Pujats | Latvia | 1930 | Alive | 93 years, 352 days | Sebastian Koto Khoarai, O.M.I. |
84 | Josyf Slipyj | Ukraine | 1892 | 1984 | 92 years, 203 days | Original |
Léon-Étienne Duval | France | 1903 | 1996 | |||
86 | Jean Honoré | France | 1920 | 2013 | 92 years, 199 days | Alfonso Capecelatro, C.O. |
87 | Joseph Asajiro Satowaki | Japan | 1904 | 1996 | 92 years, 189 days | Original |
88 | José María Caro Rodríguez | Chile | 1866 | 1958 | 92 years, 164 days | Original |
89 | Luigi Poggi | Italy | 1917 | 2010 | 92 years 160 days | Luigi Serafini |
90 | Maurice Feltin | France | 1883 | 1975 | 92 years, 145 days | Original |
91 | Silvano Piovanelli | Italy | 1924 | 2016 | 92 years, 139 days | Paolo Marella |
92 | Giuseppe Casoria | Italy | 1908 | 2001 | 92 years, 130 days | Sergio Guerri |
93 | Augusto da Silva | Brazil | 1876 | 1958 | 92 years, 128 days | Original |
94 | Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B. | Nicaragua | 1926 | 2018 | 92 years, 121 days | Anton Josef Gruscha |
95 | Camilo Ruini | Italy | 1931 | Alive | 93 years, 256 days | Leo Jozef Suenens |
96 | Gabriel-Marie Garrone | France | 1901 | 1994 | 92 years, 95 days | Original |
97 | Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta | Brazil | 1890 | 1982 | 92 years, 92 days | Original |
98 | Cahal Brendan Daly | Northern Ireland
(United Kingdom) |
1917 | 2009 | 92 years, 91 days | Louis Luçon |
99 | Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo | Italy | 1925 | 2017 | 92 years, 84 days | José Clemente Maurer, C.SS.R. |
100 | Sergio Sebatiani | Italy | 1931 | Alive | 93 years, 203 days | Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J. |
See Also
Chronological list of Oldest living members of the College of Cardinals
Living From | To | Name | Lifespan | Nationality | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | Age | Birth | Death | ||
Time as Longest lived state Leader | |||||
?? | 11 August 1890 | John Henry Newman | 21 February 1801 | 11 August 1890 | English
(United Kingdom) |
?? | 89 years, 171 days | ||||
11 August 1890 | 11 July 1899 | Teodolfo Mertel | 9 February 1806 | 11 July 1899 | Italy |
8 years , 334 days | 93 years, 152 days | ||||
11 July 1899 | 12 March 1900 | Luigi Di Canossa | 20 April 1809 | 2 March 1900 | |
244 days | 90 years, 326 days | ||||
12 March 1900 | 14 April 1904 | Michelangelo Celesia | 13 January 1814 | 14 April 1904 | |
314 days | 90 years, 92 days | ||||
14 April 1900 | 27 January 1908 | François-Marie-Benjamin Richard | 1 March 1819 | 27 January 1908 | France |
3 years, 288 days | 88 years, 332 days | ||||
27 January 1908 | 5 August 1911 | Anton Josef Gruscha | 3 November 1820 | 5 August 1911 | Italy |
3 years, 190 days | 90 years, 275 days | ||||
5 August 1911 | 14 November 1912 | Alfonso Capecelatro | 5 February 1824 | 14 November 1912 | |
1 year, 101 days | 88 years, 283 days | ||||
14 November 1912 | 5 December 1914 | Angelo di Pierto | 22 May 1828 | 5 December 1914 | |
2 years, 21 days | 86 years, 197 days | ||||
5 December 1914 | 21 December 1921 | François de Rovérié de Cabrières | 30 August 1830 | 21 December 1921 | France |
7 years, 16 days | 91 years, 113 days | ||||
21 December 1921 | 4 February 1923 | Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco | 8 September 1833 | 4 February 1923 | Italy |
1 year, 45 days | 89 years, 149 days | ||||
4 February 1923 | 9 July 1930 | Vincenzo Vannutelli | 8 September 1833 | 4 February 1923 | |
7 years, 155 days | 89 years, 149 days | ||||
9 July 1930 | 9 February 1933 | Andreas Frühwirth | 21 August 1845 | 9 February 1933 | Austria |
2 years, 215 days | 87 years, 172 days | ||||
9 February 1933 | 31 March 1834 | Franz Ehrle | 17 October 1845 | 31 March 1934 | Germany |
1 year, 50 days | 88 years, 165 days | ||||
31 March 1934 | 15 February 1935 | Pierre Andrieu | 7 December 1849 | 15 February 1935 | France |
321 days | 85 years, 70 days | ||||
15 February 1935 | 16 February 1948 | Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | 10 April 1851 | 16 February 1948 | Italy |
13 years, 1 day | 96 years, 312 days | ||||
16 February 1948 | 4 August 1948 | Enrico Sibilia | 17 March 1861 | 4 August 1948 | |
170 days | 87 years, 140 days | ||||
4 August 1948 | 29 March 1958 | Alessandro Verde | 27 March 1865 | 29 March 1958 | |
9 years, 237 days | 93 years, 2 days | ||||
29 March 1958 | 4 December 1959 | José María Caro Rodríguez | 23 June 1866 | 4 December 1958 | Chile |
1 year, 250 days | 92 years, 164 days | ||||
4 December 1958 | 5 May 1959 | Georges Grente | 5 May 1872 | 5 May 1959 | France |
152 days | 87 years, 0 days | ||||
5 May 1959 | 22 December 1961 | Elia dala Costa | 14 May 1872 | 22 December 1961 | Italy |
2 years, 231 days | 89 years, 222 days | ||||
22 December 1961 | 12 July 1968 | Francesco Morano | 8 June 1872 | 12 July 1968 | |
6 years, 203 days | 96 years, 34 days | ||||
12 July 1968 | 31 July 1968 | Carlos María de la Torre | 15 November 1873 | 31 July 1968 | Ecuador |
19 days | 94 years, 259 days | ||||
31 July 1968 | 14 August 1968 | Augusto da Silva | 8 April 1876 | 14 August 1968 | Brazil |
14 days | 92 years, 128 days | ||||
14 August 1968 | 1 August 1970 | Giuseppe Pizzardo | 13 July 1877 | 1 August 1970 | Italy |
1 year, 352 days | 93 years, 19 days | ||||
1 August 1970 | 30 September 1970 | Benedetto Aloisi Masella | 29 June 1879 | 30 September 1970 | |
60 days | 91 years, 93 days | ||||
30 September 1970 | 14 August 1972 | Paolo Giobbe | 10 January 1880 | 14 August 1972 | |
1 year, 319 days | 92 years, 217 days | ||||
14 August 1972 | 29 November 1976 | José da Costa Nunes | 15 March 1880 | 29 November 1976 | Portugal |
4 years, 107 days | 96 years, 259 days | ||||
29 November 1976 | 5 September 1979 | Alberto di Jorio | 18 July 1884 | 5 September 1979 | Italy |
2 years, 280 days | 95 years, 49 days | ||||
5 September 1979 | 23 October 1979 | Antonio Caggiano | 30 January 1889 | 23 October 1979 | Argentina |
48 days | 90 years, 266 days | ||||
23 October 1979 | 14 September 1982 | Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta | 16 July 1890 | 18 September 1982 | Brazil |
2 years, 326 days | 92 years, 64 days | ||||
18 September 1982 | 29 December 1986 | Pietro Parente | 16 February 1891 | 29 December 1986 | Italy |
4 years, 102 days | 95 years, 316 days | ||||
29 December 1986 | 24 May 1990 | Julijans Vaivods | 18 August 1895 | 24 May 1990 | Latvia |
3 years, 146 days | 94 years, 279 days | ||||
24 May 1990 | 4 September 1991 | Henri de Lubac | 20 February 1896 | 4 September 1991 | France |
1 year, 103 days | 95 years, 196 days | ||||
4 September 1991 | 12 July 1993 | Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli | 14 July 1896 | 12 July 1993 | Italy |
1 year, 311 days | 96 years, 363 days | ||||
4 September 1991 | 12 July 1993 | Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei | 2 August 1901 | 12 March 2000 | China |
8 years, 190 days | 98 years, 223 days | ||||
12 March 2000 | 3 February 2005 | Corrado Bafile | 4 July 1903 | 3 February 2005 | Italy |
4 years, 328 days | 101 years, 214 days | ||||
3 February 2005 | 2 August 2006 | Johannes Willebrands | 4 September 1909 | 1 August 2008 | Natherlands |
1 year, 180 days | 96 years, 331 days | ||||
1 August 2006 | 12 December 2007 | Alfons Maria Stickler | 23 August 1910 | 12 December 2007 | Austria |
1 year, 133 days | 97 years, 311 days | ||||
12 December 2007 | 30 April 2010 | Paul Augustin Mayer | 23 May 1911 | 30 April 2010 | Germany |
2 years, 139 days | 98 years, 312 days | ||||
30 April 2010 | 28 July 2013 | Ersilio Tonini | 20 July 1914 | 28 July 2013 | Italy |
3 years, 89 days | 99 years, 8 days | ||||
28 July 2013 | 22 February 2014 | Fiorenzo Angelini | 1 August 1916 | 22 November 2014 | |
209 days | 98 years, 113 days | ||||
22 February 2014 | 26 May 2016 | Loris Francesco Capovilla | 14 October 1915 | 26 May 2016 | |
2 years, 94 days | 100 years 224 days | ||||
26 May 2016 | 3 September 2019 | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez | 18 February 1919 | 3 September 2019 | Colombia |
3 years, 100 days | 100 years 197 days | ||||
3 September 2019 | 4 September 2019 | Roger Etchegaray | 25 September 1922 | 4 September 2019 | France |
1 day | 96 years, 344 days | ||||
4 September 2019 | 29 July 2021 | Albert Vanhoye | 24 July 1923 | 29 July 2021 | |
1 year, 328 days | 98 years, 5 days | ||||
29 July 2021 | 8 August 2022 | Jozef Tomko | 4 October 1921 | 14 July 2022 | Slovakia |
1 year, 10 days | 100 years, 283 days | ||||
8 August 2022 | Present | Alexandre do Nascimento | 1 March 1925 | Alive | Angola |
2 years, 84 days | age 99 years, 244 days |