List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals
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This is a list of the 100 oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals (in bold on gold those who are Cardinals). The current breakdown of the 100 persons are 10 cardinals and 90 bishops.
List
Rank | Bishop or Cardinal | Date of birth | Age (years, days) | Ordained Priest | Consecrated Bishop | Country |
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1 | José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | January 1, 1922 | 102 years, 140 days | May 28, 1946 | September 8, 1961 | Mexico |
2 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | 100 years, 346 days | May 23, 1959 | January 25, 1972 | United States |
3 | Settimio Todisco | May 10, 1924 | 100 years, 10 days | July 27, 1947 | February 15, 1970 | Italy |
4 | Daniel Verstraete | July 31, 1924 | 99 years, 294 days | February 19, 1950 | May 14, 1978 | South Africa |
5 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | 99 years, 230 days | December 5, 1948 | November 6, 1966 | Brazil |
6 | Albert Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | 99 years, 200 days | February 6, 1949 | May 18, 1986 | Belgium |
7 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | 99 years, 195 days | April 1, 1951 | February 2, 1983 | Spain |
8 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | 99 years, 194 days | March 20, 1950 | October 20, 1963 | South Korea |
9 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | 99 years, 159 days | May 22, 1948 | August 26, 1975 | Italy |
3-10 | Thomas Zhao Duomo | 1924 | 99 years, 141 days to 100 years, 140 days | 1951 | February 17, 2004 | China |
11 | Alexandre do Nascimento | March 1, 1925 | 99 years, 80 days | December 20, 1952 | August 31, 1975 | Angola |
12 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | 99 years, 22 days | June 29, 1953 | April 17, 1978 | Canada |
13 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | 98 years, 240 days | March 27, 1948 | June 30, 1974 | Italy |
14 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | 98 years, 181 days | March 29, 1952 | October 5, 1975 | France |
15 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | 98 years, 161 days | May 1, 1956 | April 11, 1988 | United States |
16 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | February 7, 1926 | 98 years, 103 days | December 8, 1954 | August 15, 1977 | Argentina |
17 | Walter Ivan de Azevedo | May 8, 1926 | 98 years, 12 days | December 8, 1953 | July 27, 1986 | Brazil |
18 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | 97 years, 339 days | December 2, 1951 | May 24, 1981 | Brazil |
19 | Emanuele Catarinicchia | July 12, 1926 | 97 years, 313 days | April 2, 1949 | December 17, 1978 | Italy |
20 | Heitor de Araújo Sales | July 29, 1926 | 97 years, 296 days | December 3, 1950 | June 16, 1978 | Brazil |
21 | Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | August 11, 1926 | 97 years, 283 days | December 6, 1950 | August 28, 1966 | Brazil |
22 | Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | August 24, 1926 | 97 years, 270 days | June 29, 1951 | April 29, 1973 | Ecuador |
23 | Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi | November 21, 1926 | 97 years, 181 days | December 17, 1950 | December 10, 1982 | Italy |
24 | Emmanuel Wamala | December 15, 1926 | 97 years, 157 days | December 21, 1957 | November 22, 1981 | Uganda |
25 | Michael Pak Jeong-il | December 18, 1926 | 97 years, 154 days | November 23, 1958 | May 31, 1977 | South Korea |
26 | Paolo Magnani | December 31, 1926 | 97 years, 141 days | June 29, 1951 | September 10, 1977 | Italy |
27 | Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | January 25, 1927 | 97 years, 116 days | August 22, 1953 | January 6, 1984 | South Korea |
28 | Julian Wojtkowski | January 31, 1927 | 97 years, 110 days | June 25, 1950 | August 22, 1969 | Poland |
29 | Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno | February 14, 1927 | 97 years, 96 days | June 29, 1953 | March 3, 1990 | Ecuador |
Gilberto Pereira Lopes | December 14, 1949 | December 18, 1969 | Brazil | |||
31 | Dominic Anthony Marconi | March 13, 1927 | 97 years, 68 days | May 30, 1953 | June 25, 1976 | United States |
32 | Joseph Pallikaparampil | April 10, 1927 | 97 years, 40 days | November 23, 1958 | August 15, 1973 | India |
33 | Luis Pascual Dri | April 17, 1927 | 97 years, 33 days | March 29, 1952 | Argentina | |
34 | José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui | May 20, 1927 | 97 years, 0 days | November 20, 1949 | October 25, 1977 | Colombia |
35 | Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral | May 25, 1927 | 96 years, 361 days | December 8, 1954 | April 20, 1975 | Brazil |
36 | Joseph Martin Sartoris | July 1, 1927 | 96 years, 324 days | May 30, 1953 | March 19, 1994 | United States |
37 | Alberto Tricarico | August 10, 1927 | 96 years, 284 days | January 6, 1950 | April 27, 1987 | Italy |
38 | Kazimierz Romaniuk | August 21, 1927 | 96 years, 273 days | December 16, 1951 | March 4, 1982 | Poland |
39 | Edoardo Rovida | August 26, 1927 | 96 years, 268 days | June 29, 1950 | October 10, 1971 | Italy |
40 | Abraham Than | September 21, 1927 | 96 years, 242 days | September 22, 1957 | May 11, 1969 | Myanmar |
41 | Raymond E. Goedert | October 15, 1927 | 96 years, 218 days | May 1, 1952 | August 29, 1991 | United States |
42 | Júlio Duarte Langa | October 27, 1927 | 96 years, 206 days | June 9, 1957 | October 24, 1976 | Mozambique |
43 | Daniel Cronin | November 14, 1927 | 96 years, 188 days | December 20, 1952 | September 12, 1968 | United States |
44 | Raymond Razakarinvony | November 19, 1927 | 96 years, 183 days | July 27, 1956 | May 17, 1998 | Madagascar |
45 | Bernhard Kühnel | December 4, 1927 | 96 years, 168 days | August 6, 1955 | April 27, 1983 | Germany |
46 | Vincenzo Rimedio | December 5, 1927 | 96 years, 167 days | July 22, 1951 | October 28, 1982 | Italy |
47 | Giovanni Zerbini | December 29, 1927 | 96 years, 143 days | June 29, 1956 | February 19, 1995 | Italy |
48 | Friedrich Wetter | February 20, 1928 | 96 years, 90 days | October 10, 1953 | June 29, 1968 | Germany |
49 | Robert Joseph Banks | February 26, 1928 | 96 years, 84 days | December 20, 1952 | September 19, 1985 | United States |
50 | Klaus Dick | February 27, 1928 | 96 years, 83 days | February 24, 1953 | May 19, 1975 | Germany |
51 | John Stephen Cummins | March 3, 1928 | 96 years, 78 days | January 24, 1953 | May 16, 1974 | United States |
52 | Gerd Dicke | March 28, 1928 | 96 years, 53 days | July 25, 1952 | February 16, 1970 | Germany |
53 | Alfred Kleinermeilert | March 30, 1928 | 96 years, 51 days | October 10, 1953 | May 3, 1968 | Germany |
54 | Allan Chamgwera | April 30, 1928 | 96 years, 20 days | September 7, 1957 | May 31, 1981 | Malawi |
55 | Louis Edward Gelineau | May 3, 1928 | 96 years, 17 days | June 5, 1953 | January 26, 1972 | United States |
56 | Jacques Despierre | May 6, 1928 | 96 years, 14 days | June 24, 1952 | October 10, 1982 | France |
57 | Pierre Mouallem | May 10, 1928 | 96 years, 10 days | November 21, 1955 | June 29, 1990 | Israel |
58 | Daniel Patrick Reilly | May 12, 1928 | 96 years, 8 days | May 30, 1953 | August 6, 1975 | United States |
59 | Charles Louis Joseph Vandame | June 4, 1928 | 95 years, 351 days | September 7, 1960 | January 6, 1982 | Chad |
60 | Alphonsus Mathias | June 22, 1928 | 95 years, 333 days | August 24, 1954 | February 5, 1964 | India |
61 | Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân | June 24, 1928 | 95 years, 331 days | September 2, 1955 | April 30, 1975 | Vietnam |
62 | Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque | July 24, 1928 | 95 years, 301 days | December 8, 1953 | May 5, 1985 | Brazil |
63 | Philippe Bär | July 29, 1928 | 95 years, 296 days | July 26, 1959 | March 20, 1982 | Netherlands |
64 | Ignacio Trejos Picado | July 31, 1928 | 95 years, 294 days | March 8, 1952 | March 8, 1968 | Costa Rica |
65 | Peter Chung Hoan Ting | September 10, 1928 | 95 years, 253 days | September 26, 1954 | November 15, 1970 | Malaysia |
66 | Giuseppe Germano Bernardini | September 27, 1928 | 95 years, 236 days | March 21, 1953 | April 9, 1983 | Türkiye |
67 | Owen Dolan | September 30, 1928 | 95 years, 233 days | July 21, 1954 | December 10, 1995 | New Zealand |
68 | István Katona | October 3, 1928 | 95 years, 230 days | June 7, 1953 | December 9, 1989 | Hungary |
69 | Francisco Barroso Filho | October 8, 1928 | 95 years, 225 days | December 1, 1957 | March 19, 1984 | Brazil |
70 | Ernest Simoni | October 18, 1928 | 95 years, 215 days | April 7, 1956 | Albania | |
71 | Lucas Liu Hsien-tang | December 21, 1928 | 95 years, 151 days | November 30, 1956 | January 1, 1981 | Taiwan |
72 | Anton Pain Ratu | January 2, 1929 | 95 years, 139 days | August 17, 1958 | September 21, 1982 | Indonesia |
73 | Walter Brandmüller | January 5, 1929 | 95 years, 136 days | July 26, 1953 | November 13, 2010 | Germany |
74 | Melchior Shi Hongzhen | January 7, 1929 | 95 years, 134 days | July 4, 1954 | June 15, 1982 | China |
75 | Fritz Lobinger | January 22, 1929 | 95 years, 119 days | June 29, 1955 | February 27, 1988 | Germany |
76 | Adalberto Paulo da Silva | January 25, 1929 | 95 years, 116 days | December 8, 1956 | August 3, 1975 | Brazil |
Michael Michai Kitbunchu | December 20, 1959 | June 3, 1973 | Thailand | |||
78 | Edgerton Roland Clarke | February 14, 1929 | 95 years, 96 days | February 2, 1960 | November 30, 1967 | Jamaica |
79 | Leo Nowak | March 17, 1929 | 95 years, 64 days | May 10, 1956 | March 24, 1990 | Germany |
80 | Georges Gilson | May 30, 1929 | 94 years, 356 days | April 20, 1957 | October 9, 1976 | France |
81 | Pier Giuliano Tiddia | June 13, 1929 | 94 years, 342 days | December 16, 1951 | February 2, 1975 | Italy |
82 | Paolo Gillet | July 8, 1929 | 94 years, 317 days | September 19, 1953 | January 6, 1994 | Italy |
83 | René Dupont | September 2, 1929 | 94 years, 261 days | June 29, 1953 | July 25, 1969 | France |
84 | Patricio Infante Alfonso | October 9, 1929 | 94 years, 224 days | June 28, 1953 | September 23, 1984 | Chile |
85 | Angelo Mascheroni | October 13, 1929 | 94 years, 220 days | June 13, 1952 | June 24, 1990 | Italy |
86 | Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez | October 18, 1929 | 94 years, 215 days | June 25, 1955 | March 19, 1970 | Cuba |
87 | Antônio de Souza | October 21, 1929 | 94 years, 212 days | July 1, 1956 | April 16, 1974 | Brazil |
88 | Vincenzo Zarri | October 23, 1929 | 94 years, 210 days | July 25, 1952 | June 29, 1976 | Italy |
89 | Paul-Marie Gillaume | October 31, 1929 | 94 years, 202 days | April 9, 1955 | December 9, 1984 | France |
90 | Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal | December 2, 1929 | 94 years, 170 days | August 17, 1958 | September 8, 1972 | Colombia |
91 | José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle | December 3, 1929 | 94 years, 169 days | January 10, 1954 | July 23, 1982 | Brazil |
92 | Ramón Buxarrais Ventura | December 12, 1929 | 94 years, 160 days | December 17, 1955 | October 3, 1971 | Spain |
93 | Victorio Oliver Domingo | December 23, 1929 | 94 years, 149 days | June 27, 1954 | October 12, 1972 | Spain |
94 | Thomas Gumbleton | January 26, 1930 | 94 years, 115 days | June 2, 1956 | May 1, 1968 | United States |
95 | Miguel Caviedes | January 30, 1930 | 94 years, 111 days | September 18, 1954 | December 19, 1982 | Chile |
96 | Jean Bonfils | February 15, 1930 | 94 years, 95 days | December 7, 1954 | January 10, 1993 | France |
97 | Pedro Dean | February 21, 1930 | 94 years, 89 days | November 30, 1956 | January 25, 1978 | Philippines |
98 | David Cremin | February 22, 1930 | 94 years, 88 days | June 12, 1955 | January 19, 1974 | Australia |
99 | Francesco Cuccarese | March 8, 1930 | 94 years, 73 days | July 19, 1953 | April 1, 1979 | Italy |
100 | Adam Maida | March 18, 1930 | 94 years, 63 days | May 26, 1956 | January 25, 1984 | United States |