List of longest-living catholic bishops and cardinals

This article lists the 100 longest known living or deceased Catholic Prelates (born non earlier than 1800). Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived Catholic Prelate was American Edward Daniel Howard (1977-1983) who lived to 105 years, 58 days.

List

No.	Prelate	Country	Birth	Death	Age
1	Abp. Edward Daniel Howard	United States	1877	1983	105 years, 58 days
2	Bishop Damián Iguacén Borau	Spain	1916	2020	104 years, 286 days
3	Archbishop Bernardino Piñera Carvallo	Chile	1915	2020	104 years, 280 days
4	Archbishop Peter Leo Geretey	United States	1912	2016	104 years, 63 days
5	Bp. Géry Leuliet	France	1910	2015	103 years, 354 days
6	Bp. Joseph Meng Ziwen	China	1903	2007	103 years, 294 days
7	Bishop Antonio Teutonico	Italy	1874	1978	103 years, 276 days
8	Bishop José de Jesús Garcia Ayala	Mexico	1910	2014	103 years, 222 days
9	Bishop John Linus Paschang	United States	1895	1999	103 years, 167 days
10	Monsignor Antonio Rosario Mennonna	Italy	1906	2009	103 years, 163 days
11	Bishop José Calasanz Rosenhammer	Austria	1900	2003	103 years, 115 days
12	Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	Mexico	1922	alive	103 years, 93 days
13	Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert	DR Congdo	1914	2016	102 years, 129 days
14	Bishop Laurent Noél	Canada	1920	2022	102 years, 109 days
15	Bishop Francisco Prada Carrera	Brazil	1893	1995	101 years, 315 days
16	Bishop René Henry Gracida	United States	1923	alive	101 years, 299 days
17	Cardinal Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903	2005	101 years, 214 days
18	Bishop Albert-Georges Malbois	France	1915	2017	101 years, 87 days
19	Bishop Johannes Theodor Suhr	Brazil	1896	1997	101 years, 45 days
20	Bishop Jeronimo Mazzarotto	Brazil	1898	1999	101 years, 42 days
21	Archbishop Johannes Theodor Suhr	Netherlands	1920	2022	101 years, 40 days
22	Bishop Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	Mexico	1921	2022	101 years, 2 days
23	Bishop Alfonso Carinci	Italy	1862	1963	100 years, 362 days
24	Bishop Guillermo Leaden	Argentina	1913	2014	100 years, 359 days
25	Bishop Joseph Zhong Huai-de	China	1920	2022	100 years, 346 days
26	Bishop Gérard Tremblay	Canada	1918	2019	100 years, 336 days
27	Bishop Gérard Dionne	Canada	1919	2020	100 years, 329 days
28	Archbishop Settimio Todisco	Italy	1924	2025	100 years, 320 days
29	Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla	Italy	1915	2016	100 years, 223 days
30	Bishop Daniel Verstraete	South Africa	1924	Alive	100 years, 247 days
31	in Macario Tinti	Italy	1900	2000	100 years, 214 days
32	Archbishop Francisco Minerva	Italy	1904	2004	100 years, 205 days
33	Cardinal José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	Colombia	1919	2019	100 years, 197 days
34	Bishop Aldo Mongiano	Italy	1919	2020	100 years, 169 days
35	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	Brazil	1924	Alive	100 years, 183 days
36	Bishop Joseph Ma Zhongmu	China	1919	2020	100 years, 147 days
37	Bishop Giovanni Bendetti	Italy	1909	2009	100 years, 144 days
38	Bishop Albert Houssiau	Belgium	1924	alive	100 years, 153 days
39	Bishop Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	Spain	1924	alive	100 years, 148 days
40	Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	South Korea	1924	alive	100 years, 147 days
41	Bishop Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngư	Vietnam	1909	2009	100 years, 126 days
42	Archbishop Gaetano Bonicelli	Italy	1924	Alive	100 years, 112 days
43	Bishop Georges-Hilaire Dupont OMI	France	1919	2020	100 years, 74 days
44	Bishop Hubertus Ernst	Netherlands	1917	2017	100 years, 41 days
45	Bishop Felice Leonardo	Italy	1915	2015	100 years, 37 days
46	Bishop Paul-Louis Carrière	France	1908	2008	99 years, 327 days
47	James Hector MacDonald	Canada	1925'	alive	99 years, 341 days
48	Bishop Antonio Mistrorigo	Italy	1912	2012	99 years, 294 days
49	Archbishop Alfredo Cifuentes Gómes	Chile	1890	1989	99 years, 248 days
50	Archbishop Daniel Mannix	Ireland	1864	1963	99 years, 247 days
51	Archbishop Stanisław Szymecki	Poland	1923	2023	99 years, 243 days
52	Bishop Giuseppe Casale	Italy	1923	2023	99 years, 232 days
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54	Cardinal Alexandre do Nascimento	Colombia	1925	2024	99 years, 212 days
55	Bishop Leonida Medina	Colombia	1854	1953	99 years, 190 days
56	Cardinal Angelo Acerbi	Italy	1925	alive	99 years, 193 days
57	Bishop Andrew Han Jingtao	China	1921	2020	99 years, 157 days
58	Archbishop Joakim Segedi	Croatia	1904	2004	99 years, 144 days
59	Bishop Peter Takaaki Hirayama	Japan	1923	2023	99 years, 106 days
60	Bishop Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	France	1925	alive	99 years, 134 days
61	Bishop Augusto Lauro	Italy	1916	2015	99 years, 98 days
62	Bishop Giuseppe Garneri	25px Italy	1899	1998	99 years, 90 days
63	Bishop John R. Gorman	: United States'	1925	Alive	99 years, 114 days
64	Archbishop Bruno Foresti	Italy	1923	2022	99 years, 81 days
65	Bishop Jorge Scarso	Mexico	1916	2015	99 years, 78 days
66	Archbishop Jean Jadot	Belgium	1909	2009	99 years, 59 days
67	Archbishop Odore Joseph Gendron	United States	1921	2020	99 years, 34 days
68	Bishop Pedro Grau y Arola	25px Spain	1903	2002	99 years, 30 days
69	Cardinal Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Argentina	1926	Alive	99 years, 56 days
70	Bishop Èugene Moke Motsüri	Congo-Kinshasa	1916	2015	99 years, 11 days
71	Cardinal Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914	2013	99 years, 8 days
72	Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	Lebanon	1920	2019	98 years, 362 days
73	Archbishop Jacques Le Cordier	France	1904	2003	98 years, 343 days
74	Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1911	2010	98 years, 342 days
75	Bishop Anthony Sanusi	Nigeria	1911	2009	98 years, 340 days
76	Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu	China	1921	2020	98 years, 310 days
77	Archbishop Giovanni Ferrofino	Italy	1912	2010	98 years, 299 days
78	Bishop Stephen Yang Xiangtai	China	1923	2021	98 years, 283 days
79	Bishop Jožef Smej	Slovenia	1922	2020	98 years, 280 days
80	Archbishop Vincenzo Franco	Italy	1917	2016	98 years, 277 days
81	Archbishop Marius Paré	Canada	1903	2002	98 years, 270 days
82	Archbishop Vincenzo Franco	Italy	1917	2016	98 years, 277 days
83	Archbishop Marius Paré	Canada	1903	2002	98 years, 270 days
84	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	Brazil	1926	Alive	98 years, 292 days
85	Bishop John Aloysius Morgan	Australia	1909	2008	98 years, 225 days
86	Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	1901	2000	98 years, 223 days
	Cardinal Franz König	Austria	1905	2004
88	Bishop Heitor de Araújo Sales	Brazil	1926	alive	98 years, 249 days
89	Archbishop Victor Sartre	Madagascar	1902	2000	98 years, 204 days
90	Bishop Michael Huang Wo-ze	China	1905	2004	98 years, 195 days
91	Archbishop Ambrose Rayappan	India	1901	1999	98 years, 183 days
92	Cardinal Jozef Tomko	Slovakia	1924	2022	98 years 151 days
93	Bishop Eloy Tato Losada	Colombia	1923	2022	98 years, 234 days
'94	Bishop Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	&mfash;Brazil	1926	alive	98 years, 236 days
95	Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	Ecuador	1926	alive	98 years, 223 days
96	Archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan	United States	1913	2011	98 years, 132 days
97	Cardianal Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916	2014	98 years, 113 days
98	Archbishop Armando Círio	Brazil	1916	2014	98 years, 103 days
99	Bishop John Bernard MacGinley	United States	1871	1969	98 years, 60 days
100	Bishop Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	South Korea	1927	Alive	98 years, 69 days

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1. Bishop Template:Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D. 1910 2012 102 years, 223 days
2. Bishop Bernard Joseph McLaughlin CAN 1916 2014 102 years, 47 days
3. Bishop John Baptist Liu Jing-shann CHN 1913 2013 99 years, 103 days
4. Archbishop Gennaro Verolino 1906-2005 99 years, 14 days
5. Bishop Jacques Nguyễn Văn Mầu VIE 1914 2013 99 years, 9 days
6. Bishop Auguste Delisle C.S.Sp. 1906-2006 98 years, 129 days
7. Bishop {{wp|José Bezerra Coutinho : 1910-2008 98 years, 274 days

See Also

• List of longest-living cardinals
• List of oldest living catholic bishops and cardinals