List of Longest Living Cardinals

This article lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased Members of the College of Cardinals (after 1800),, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Cardinal was Italian, Corrado Bafile who lived to ages of 101 years, 214 days. The Second longest-lived another Italian Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla who lived to 100 years, 224 days.

List

Key

Bold on gold are Cardinals currently living

Rank	Cardinal	Country	Born	Died	Age at Death	Entry
						Date	Replacing
1	Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903	2005	101 years, 214 days	1 January 2008	Original
2	Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	1915	2016	100 years, 224 days	14 February 2014	Alejandru Todea
3	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	1919	2019	100 years, 197 days	14 February 2015	Tomáš Špidlík
4	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914	2013	99 years, 8 days	1 January 2008	Original
5	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	1920	2019	98 years, 362 days	26 April 2009	Manuel Cerejeira
6	Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1911	2010	98 years, 342 days	1 January 2008	Original
7	Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	1901	2000	98 years, 223 days	1 January 2008	Original
	Franz König	Austria	1905	2004
9	Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	1925	Alive	99 years, 80 days	29 August 2015	Urbano Navarrete Cortés
10	Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	1924	2022	98 years 150 days	5 June 2014	Miguel Miranda y Gómez
11	Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916	2014	98 years, 113 days	1 January 2008	Original
12	Albert Vanhoye, SJ	France	1923	2021	98 years, 59 days	2 April 2013	Phạm Ðình Tụng
13	Paolo Dezza, S.J.	Italy	1901	1999	98 years, 4 days	1 January 2008	Original
14	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	Alive	98 years, 103 days	29 November 2016	Amleto Cocongani
15	Alexandre José María dos Santos, O.F.M.	Mozambique	1924	2021	97 years, 195 days	18 June 2014	Michelangelo Celesia
16	Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	1910	2007	97 years, 111 days	1 January 2008	Original
17	Henryk Gulbinowicz	Poland	1923	2020	97 years, 30 days	8 July 2013	Paolo Marella
18	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M.	Italy	1896	1993	96 years, 363 days	1 January 2008	Original
19	Roger Etchegaray	France	1922	2019	96 years, 344 days	1 June 2012	Luis Aponte Martínez
20	Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	1909	2008	96 years, 331 days	1 January 2008	Original
21	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days	1 January 2008	Original
22	Emmanuel Wamala	Uganda	1926	Alive	97 years, 157 days	26 November 2017	Pablo Muñoz Vega
23	Edward Cassidy	Australia	1924	2021	96 years, 279 days	19 October 2014	José Clemente Maurer
24	Kazimierz Świątek	Belarus	1914	2011	96 years, 273 days	1 January 2008	Original
25	José da Costa Nuñes	Portugal	1880	1976	96 years, 259 days	1 January 2008	Original
26	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	1918	2006	96 years, 211 days	20 March 2007	Carlo Grano
27	Domenico Bartolucci	Italy	1917	2013	96 years, 188 days	28 November 2010	Giuseppe Prisco
28	Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J.	Zambia	1911	2007	96 years, 180 days	1 January 2008	Original
29	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	Spain	1925	2022	96 years, 175 days	15 March 2016	Aurelio Sabattani
30	Luis Pascual Dri	Argentina	1927	Alive	97 years, 33 days	30 September 2023	Gabriel-Marie Garrone
31	Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1900	1997	96 years, 121 days	1 January 2008	Original
32	Francesco Morano	Italy	1872	1968	96 years, 34 days	1 January 2008	Original
33	Luigi De Magistris	Italy	1926	2022	95 years 358 days	14 January 2017	Luigi di Canossa
34	Júlio Duarte Langa	Mozambique	1927	Alive	96 years, 206 days	5 January 2019	Yves Congar
35	José Freire Falcão	Brazil	1925	2021	95 years, 338 days	30 June 2016	Giovanni Mercati
36	Pietro Parente	Italy	1891	1986	95 years, 316 days	1 January 2008	Original
37	Achille Silvestrini	Italy	1923	2019	95 years, 308 days	26 July 2013	François Marty
38	Friedrich Wetter	Germany	1928	Alive	96 years, 90 days	13 June 2019	François de Cabrières
39	Agostino Cacciavillan	Italy	1926	2022	95 years, 204 days	14 July 2017	Giuseppe Carpio
40	Henri de Lubac, S.J.	France	1896	1991	95 years, 196 days	1 January 2008	Original
41	Paulo Evaristo Arns	Brazil	1920	2016	95 years, 91 days	17 February 2011	Fernando Cento
42	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	Brazil	1924	2019	95 years, 56 days	18 November 2014	Duraisamy Lourdusamy
43	Alberto Di Jorio	Italy	1884	1979	95 years, 49 days	1 January 2008	Original
44	Corrado Ursi	Italy	1908	2003	95 years, 34 days	1 January 2008	Original
45	Ernest Simoni	Albania	1928	Alive	95 years, 206 days	13 February 2020	Pietro Pavan
46	Jorge Medina Estévez	Chile	1926	2021	94 years, 284 days	15 January 2018	Patrick O’Boyle
47	Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	1895	1990	94 years, 279 days	1 January 2008	Original
48	Walter Brandmüller	Germany	1929	Alive	95 years, 136 days	22 July 2020	Enrique Pla y Deniel
49	Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	1873	1968	94 years, 259 days	1 January 2008	Original
50	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Thailand	1929	Alive	95 years, 116 days	14 September 2020	Edward Clancy
51	Louis-Albert Vachon	Canada	1912	2006	94 years, 237 days	1 January 2008	Original
52	Egano Righi-Lambertini	Italy	1906	2000	94 years, 225 days	1 January 2008	Original
53	Angelo Sodano	Italy	1927	2022	94 years, 205 days	22 February 2019	Benedetto Aloisi Masella
54	Gilberto Agustoni	Italy	1922	2017	94 years, 171 days	20 February 2012	Maximos IV Sayegh
55	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Spain	1927	2021	94 years, 142 days	28 April 2018	Gerald Emmett Carter
56	Giovanni Cheli	Italy	1918	2013	94 years 122 days	1 January 2008	Original
57	Giuseppe Sensi	Italy	1907	2001	94 years, 60 days	1 January 2008	Original
58	Marian Jaworski	Poland	1926	2020	94 years 13 days	14 August 2017	José Tomás Sánchez
59	Carlo Furno	Italy	1921	2015	94 years, 7 days	22 May 2011	John Henry Newman
60	Prosper Grech, O.S.A.	Malta	1925	2019	94 years, 6 days	2 September 2016	Lorenzo Antonetti
61	Roberto Tucci	Italy	1921	2015	93 years, 360 days	17 August 2010	Avery Dulles, S.J.
62	Georges Cottier	Switzerland	1922	2016	93 years, 341 days	16 November 2011	William Heard
63	John Carberry	United States	1904	1998	93 years, 321 days	1 January 2008	Original
64	Paolo Bertoli	Italy	1908	2001	93 years, 280 days	1 January 2008	Original
65	Opilio Rossi	United States	1910	2004	93 years, 271 days	1 January 2008	Original
67	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	1836	1930	93 years, 216 days	1 January 2008	Original
67	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Spain	1926	2019	93 years, 201 days	23 September 2016	Antonio Caggiano
68	Adam Maida	United States	1930	Alive	94 years, 63 days	17 November 2021	Eugenio Sales
69	Thomas Williams	United States	1930	Alive	94 years, 61 days	23 November 2021	Stanisław Nagy
70	Julian Herranz Casado	Spain	1930	Alive	94 years, 50 days	31 December 2021	Jan Korec
71	Jean Margéot	Mauritius	1916	2009	93 years, 164 days	1 January 2008	Original
72	Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	1806	1899	93 years, 152 days	1 January 2008	Original
73	Simon Pimenta	Italy	1920	2013	93 years, 140 days	5 January 2008	Maurilio Fossati
74	František Tomášek	Czech Republic	1899	1992	93 years, 35 days	1 January 2008	Original
75	Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	1877	1970	93 years, 19 days	1 January 2008	Original
76	Paul Poupard	France	1930	Alive	93 years, 264 days	21 June 2022	Leo Jozef Suenens
77	Alfredo Vicente Scherer	Brazil	1903	1996	93 years, 33 days	1 January 2008	Original
78	Salvatore De Giorgi	Italy	1930	Alive	93 years, 257 days	15 July 2022	Jorge María Mejía
79	James Francis McIntyre	United States	1886	1979	93 years, 14 days	1 January 2008	Original
	Antonio Innocenti	Italy	1915	2008
81	Carlo Confalonieri	Italy	1893	1986	93 years, 7 days	1 January 2008	Original
82	Alessandro Verde	Italy	1865	1958	93 years, 2 days	1 January 2008	Original
83	Janis Pujats	Latvia	1930	Alive	93 years, 188 days	24 September 2022	Josef Frings
84	Julien Ries	Belgium	1920	2013	92 years, 310 days	17 March 2009	François Richard
85	Juan Carlos Aramburu	Argentina	1912	2004	92 years, 281 days	1 January 2008	Original
86	Camillo Ruini	Italy	1931	Alive	93 years, 91 days	22 April 2023	Carlos Vascocellos
87	Paolo Giobbe	Italy	1880	1972	92 years, 217 days	1 January 2008	Original
88	Josyf Slipyj	Ukraine	1892	1984	92 years, 203 days	1 January 2008	Original
	Léon-Étienne Duval	Algeria	1903	1996
90	Jean Honoré	France	1920	2013	92 years, 199 days	20 August 2009	Achille Liénart
91	Joseph Asajirō Satowaki	Japan	1904	1996	92 years, 189 days	1 January 2008	Original
92	Sergio Sebastiani	Italy	1931	Alive	93 years, 39 days	4 July 2023	Andrea di Montezemolo
93	José María Caro Rodríguez	Chile	1866	1958	92 years, 164 days	1 January 2008	Original
94	Luigi Poggi	Italy	1917	2010	92 years, 160 days	1 January 2008	Original
95	Maurice Feltin	France	1883	1975	92 years, 145 days	1 January 2008	Original
96	Silvano Piovanelli	Italy	1924	2016	92 years, 139 days	12 May 2014	Juan Francisco Fresno
97	Lucian Mureșan	Romania	1931	Alive	92 years, 363 days	22 August 2023	Cahal Daly
98	Giuseppe Casoria	Italy	1908	2001	92 years, 130 days	1 January 2008	Original
99	Augusto Álvaro da Silva	Brazil	1876	1968	92 years, 128 days	1 January 2008	Original
100	Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B.	Nicaragua	1926	2018	92 years, 121 days	3 November 2016	Anton Gruscha

Next 10 Longest-living cardinals

Name	Country	Birth	Death	Current age	Entry		Age by 2023-09-30
					Date	After
José Saraiva Martins, CMF	Portugal	1932	Alive	92 years, 135 days	6 May 2024	Miguel Obando y Bravo	91 years, 267 days
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, SDB	China (Hong Kong)	1932	Alive	92 years, 128 days	20 May 2024	Augusto da Silva	91 years, 260 days
James Francis Stafford	United States	1932	Alive	91 years, 296 days	3 December 2024	Giuseppe Casoria	91 years, 63 days
Gaudencio Rosales	Philippines	1932	Alive	91 years, 284 days	27 December 2024	Silvano Piovanelli	91 years, 51 days
Pedro Rubiano Sáenz	Colombia	1932	Alive	91 years, 250 days	5 February 2025	Maurice Feltin	91 years, 17 days
Francis Arinze	Nigeria	1932	Alive	91 years, 201 days	10 April 2025	Luigi Poggi	90 years, 333 days
Renato Martino	Italy	1932	Alive	91 years, 179 days	6 May 2025	José María Caro Rodríguez	90 years, 311 days
Kelvin Edward Felix	Saint Lucia	1933	Alive	91 years, 95 days	23 August 2025	Joseph Asajirō Satowaki	90 years, 227 days
Walter Kasper	Germany	1933	Alive	91 years, 76 days	20 September 2025	Jean Honoré	90 years, 209 days
Juan Sandoval Iñiguez	Mexico	1933	Alive	91 years, 53 days	17 October 2025	Josyf Slipyj and <>Léon-Étienne Duval (tied)	90 years, 186 days

Chronological list of Oldest living members of the College of Cardinals

Name	Nationality	Born	Became Oldest	Died (Time as oldest) Age
John Henry Newman	English (United Kingdom)	21 February 1801	11 August 1890	11 August 1890 (??) 89 years, 171 days
Teodolfo Mertel	Italy	9 February 1806	11 August 1890	11 July 1899 (8 years, 334 days) 93 years, 152 days
Luigi Di Canossa		20 April 1809	11 July 1899	2 March 1900 (244 days) 90 years, 326 days
Michelangelo Celesia		13 January 1814	12 March 1900	14 April 1904 (314 days) 90 years, 92 days
François-Marie-Benjamin Richard	France	1 March 1819	14 April 1900	27 January 1908 (3 years, 288 days) 88 years, 332 days
Anton Josef Gruscha	Italy	3 November 1820	27 January 1908	5 August 1911 (3 years, 190 days) 90 years, 275 days
Alfonso Capecelatro		5 February 1824	5 August 1911	14 November 1912 (1 year, 101 days) 88 years, 283 days
Angelo di Pierto		22 May 1828	14 November 1912	5 December 1914 (2 years, 21 days) 86 years, 197 days
François de Rovérié de Cabrières	France	30 August 1830	5 December 1914	21 December 1921 (7 years, 16 days) 91 years, 113 days
Giuseppe Prisco	Italy	8 September 1833	21 December 1921	4 February 1923 (1 year, 45 days) 89 years, 149 days
Vincenzo Vannutelli		8 September 1833	4 February 1923	4 February 1923 (7 years, 155 days) 89 years, 149 days
Andreas Frühwirth	Austria	21 August 1845	9 July 1930	9 February 1933 (2 years, 215 days) 87 years, 172 days
Franz Ehrle	Germany	17 October 1845	9 February 1933	31 March 1934 (1 year, 50 days) 88 years, 165 days
Pierre Andrieu	France	7 December 1849	31 March 1934	15 February 1935 (321 days) 85 years, 70 days
Gennaro Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	10 April 1851	15 February 1935	16 February 1948 (13 years, 1 day) 96 years, 312 days
Enrico Sibilia		17 March 1861	16 February 1948	4 August 1948 (170 days) 87 years, 140 days
Alessandro Verde		27 March 1865	4 August 1948	29 March 1958 (9 years, 237 days) 93 years, 2 days
José María Caro Rodríguez	Chile	23 June 1866	29 March 1958	4 December 1958 (1 year, 250 days) 92 years, 164 days
Georges Grente	France	5 May 1872	4 December 1958	5 May 1959 (152 days) 87 years, 0 days
Elia dala Costa	Italy	14 May 1872	5 May 1959	22 December 1961 (2 years, 231 days) 89 years, 222 days
Francesco Morano		8 June 1872	22 December 1961	12 July 1968 (6 years, 203 days) 96 years, 34 days
Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	15 November 1873	12 July 1968	31 July 1968 (19 days) 94 years, 259 days
Augusto da Silva	Brazil	8 April 1876	31 July 1968	14 August 1968 (14 days) 92 years, 128 days
Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	13 July 1877	14 August 1968	1 August 1970 (1 year, 352 days) 93 years, 19 days
Benedetto Aloisi Masella		29 June 1879	1 August 1970	30 September 1970 (60 days) 91 years, 93 days
Paolo Giobbe		10 January 1880	30 September 1970	14 August 1972 (1 year, 319 days) 92 years, 217 days
José da Costa Nunes	Portugal	15 March 1880	14 August 1972	29 November 1976 (4 years, 107 days) 96 years, 259 days
Alberto di Jorio	Italy	18 July 1884	29 November 1976	5 September 1979 (2 years, 280 days) 95 years, 49 days
Antonio Caggiano	Argentina	30 January 1889	5 September 1979	23 October 1979 (48 days) 90 years, 266 days
Carlos Vasconcellos	Brazil	16 July 1890	23 October 1979	18 September 1982 (2 years, 326 days) 92 years, 64 days
Pietro Parente	Italy	16 February 1891	18 September 1982	29 December 1986 (4 years, 102 days) 95 years, 316 days
Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	18 August 1895	29 December 1986	24 May 1990 (3 years, 146 days) 94 years, 279 days
Henri de Lubac	France	20 February 1896	24 May 1990	4 September 1991 (1 year, 103 days) 95 years, 196 days
Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli	Italy	14 July 1896	4 September 1991	12 July 1993 (1 year, 311 days) 96 years, 363 days
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	2 August 1901	4 September 1991	26 November 1994	12 March 2000 (3 years, 44 days) 98 years, 223 days
Mikel Koliqi	Albania	29 September 1900	26 November 1994	28 January 1997 96 years, 121 days
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei	China	2 August 1901	28 January 1997	12 March 2000 (3 years, 44 days) 98 years, 223 days
Corrado Bafile	Italy	4 July 1903	12 March 2000	3 February 2005 (4 years, 328 days) 101 years, 214 days
Johannes Willebrands	Natherlands	4 September 1909	3 February 2005	1 August 2008 (1 year, 180 days) 96 years, 331 days
Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	23 August 1910	1 August 2006	12 December 2007 (1 year, 133 days) 97 years, 311 days
Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	23 May 1911	12 December 2007	30 April 2010 (2 years, 139 days) 98 years, 312 days
Ersilio Tonini	Italy	20 July 1914	30 April 2010	28 July 2013 (3 years, 89 days) 99 years, 8 days
Fiorenzo Angelini		1 August 1916	28 July 2013	22 November 2014 (209 days) 98 years, 113 days
Loris Francesco Capovilla		14 October 1915	22 February 2014	26 May 2016 (2 years, 94 days) 100 years, 224 days
José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Colombia	18 February 1919	26 May 2016	3 September 2019 (3 years, 100 days) 100 years, 197 days
Roger Etchegaray	France	25 September 1922	3 September 2019	4 September 2019 (1 day) 96 years, 344 days
Albert Vanhoye		24 July 1923	4 September 2019	29 July 2021 (1 year, 328 days) 98 years, 5 days
Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	11 March 1924	29 July 2021	14 July 2022 (1 year, 10 days) 100 years, 283 days
Alexandre do Nascimento	Angola	1 March 1925	8 August 2022	Alive (1 year, 286 days) age 99 years, 80 days

See Also

• List of Cardinals by Age (current)
• Cardinals by Death Date (who died at least 85 years old)
• Lists of Cardinals by death date
• List of current cardinals
• Hypothetical List of longest-living Cardinals
• List of longest-living state leaders
• Past longest-living cardinals