List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals
This is a list of the 100 oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals (in gold those who are Cardinals). The current breakdown of the 100 persons are 8 cardinals and 92 bishops.
Rank | Bishop or Cardinal | Date of birth | Age (years, days) | Ordained Priest | Consecrated Bishop | Country of origin |
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1 | José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | January 1, 1922 | 102 years, 129 days | May 28, 1946 | September 8, 1961 | Mexico |
2 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | 100 years, 335 days | May 23, 1959 | January 25, 1972 | United States |
3 | Luigi Bettazzi | November 26, 1923 | 100 years, 165 days | August 4, 1946 | October 4, 1963 | Italy |
4 | Thomas Zhao Duomo | 1924 | 98–99 years | 1951 | February 17, 2004 | China |
5 | Stanisław Szymecki | January 26, 1924 | 100 years, 104 days | July 3, 1947 | April 12, 1981 | Poland |
6 | Peter Takaaki Hirayama | March 31, 1924 | 100 years, 39 days | March 19, 1957 | January 25, 1970 | Japan |
7 | Settimio Todisco | May 10, 1924 | 99 years, 365 days | July 27, 1947 | February 15, 1970 | Italy |
8 | Daniel Verstraete | July 31, 1924 | 99 years, 283 days | February 19, 1950 | May 14, 1978 | South Africa |
9 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | 99 years, 219 days | December 5, 1948 | November 6, 1966 | Brazil |
10 | Albert Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | 99 years, 189 days | February 6, 1949 | May 18, 1986 | Belgium |
11 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | 99 years, 184 days | April 1, 1951 | February 2, 1983 | Spain |
12 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | 99 years, 183 days | March 20, 1950 | October 20, 1963 | South Korea |
13 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | 99 years, 148 days | May 22, 1948 | August 26, 1975 | Italy |
14 | Alexandre do Nascimento | March 1, 1925 | 99 years, 69 days | December 20, 1952 | August 31, 1975 | Angola |
15 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | 99 years, 11 days | June 29, 1953 | April 17, 1978 | Canada |
16 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | 98 years, 229 days | March 27, 1948 | June 30, 1974 | Italy |
17 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | 98 years, 170 days | March 29, 1952 | October 5, 1975 | France |
18 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | 98 years, 150 days | May 1, 1956 | April 11, 1988 | United States |
19 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | February 7, 1926 | 98 years, 92 days | December 8, 1954 | August 15, 1977 | Argentina |
20 | Walter Ivan de Azevedo | May 8, 1926 | 98 years, 1 day | December 8, 1953 | July 27, 1986 | Brazil |
21 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | 97 years, 328 days | December 2, 1951 | May 24, 1981 | Brazil |
22 | Emanuele Catarinicchia | July 12, 1926 | 97 years, 302 days | April 2, 1949 | December 17, 1978 | Italy |
23 | Heitor de Araújo Sales | July 29, 1926 | 97 years, 285 days | December 3, 1950 | June 16, 1978 | Brazil |
24 | Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | August 11, 1926 | 97 years, 272 days | December 6, 1950 | August 28, 1966 | Brazil |
25 | Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | August 24, 1926 | 97 years, 259 days | June 29, 1951 | April 29, 1973 | Ecuador |
26 | Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi | November 21, 1926 | 97 years, 170 days | December 17, 1950 | December 10, 1982 | Italy |
27 | Emmanuel Wamala | December 15, 1926 | 97 years, 146 days | December 21, 1957 | November 22, 1981 | Uganda |
28 | Michael Pak Jeong-il | December 18, 1926 | 97 years, 143 days | November 23, 1958 | May 31, 1977 | South Korea |
29 | Paolo Magnani | December 31, 1926 | 97 years, 130 days | June 29, 1951 | September 10, 1977 | Italy |
30 | Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | January 25, 1927 | 97 years, 105 days | August 22, 1953 | January 6, 1984 | South Korea |
31 | Julian Wojtkowski | January 31, 1927 | 97 years, 99 days | June 25, 1950 | August 22, 1969 | Poland |
32 / 33 | Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno | February 14, 1927 | 97 years, 85 days | June 29, 1953 | March 3, 1990 | Ecuador |
Gilberto Pereira Lopes | December 14, 1949 | December 18, 1969 | Brazil | |||
34 | Dominic Anthony Marconi | March 13, 1927 | 97 years, 57 days | May 30, 1953 | June 25, 1976 | United States |
35 | Joseph Pallikaparampil | April 10, 1927 | 97 years, 29 days | November 23, 1958 | August 15, 1973 | India |
36 | José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui | May 20, 1927 | 96 years, 355 days | November 20, 1949 | October 25, 1977 | Colombia |
37 | Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral | May 25, 1927 | 96 years, 350 days | December 8, 1954 | April 20, 1975 | Brazil |
38 | Joseph Martin Sartoris | July 1, 1927 | 96 years, 313 days | May 30, 1953 | March 19, 1994 | United States |
39 | Alberto Tricarico | August 10, 1927 | 96 years, 273 days | January 6, 1950 | April 27, 1987 | Italy |
40 | Kazimierz Romaniuk | August 21, 1927 | 96 years, 262 days | December 16, 1951 | March 4, 1982 | Poland |
41 | Edoardo Rovida | August 26, 1927 | 96 years, 257 days | June 29, 1950 | October 10, 1971 | Italy |
42 | Abraham Than | September 21, 1927 | 96 years, 231 days | September 22, 1957 | May 11, 1969 | Myanmar |
43 | Raymond E. Goedert | October 15, 1927 | 96 years, 207 days | May 1, 1952 | August 29, 1991 | United States |
44 | Júlio Duarte Langa | October 27, 1927 | 96 years, 195 days | June 9, 1957 | October 24, 1976 | Mozambique |
45 | Pierre Trân Thanh Chung | November 10, 1927 | 96 years, 181 days | May 25, 1955 | November 22, 1981 | Vietnam |
46 | Daniel Cronin | November 14, 1927 | 96 years, 177 days | December 20, 1952 | September 12, 1968 | United States |
47 | Raymond Razakarinvony | November 19, 1927 | 96 years, 172 days | July 27, 1956 | May 17, 1998 | Madagascar |
48 | Bernhard Kühnel | December 4, 1927 | 96 years, 157 days | August 6, 1955 | April 27, 1983 | Germany |
49 | Vincenzo Rimedio | December 5, 1927 | 96 years, 156 days | July 22, 1951 | October 28, 1982 | Italy |
50 | Giovanni Zerbini | December 29, 1927 | 96 years, 132 days | June 29, 1956 | February 19, 1995 | Italy |
51 | Friedrich Wetter | February 20, 1928 | 96 years, 79 days | October 10, 1953 | June 29, 1968 | Germany |
52 | Robert Joseph Banks | February 26, 1928 | 96 years, 73 days | December 20, 1952 | September 19, 1985 | United States |
53 | Klaus Dick | February 27, 1928 | 96 years, 72 days | February 24, 1953 | May 19, 1975 | Germany |
54 | John Stephen Cummins | March 3, 1928 | 96 years, 67 days | January 24, 1953 | May 16, 1974 | United States |
55 | Gerd Dicke | March 28, 1928 | 96 years, 42 days | July 25, 1952 | February 16, 1970 | Germany |
56 | Alfred Kleinermeilert | March 30, 1928 | 96 years, 40 days | October 10, 1953 | May 3, 1968 | Germany |
57 | Allan Chamgwera | April 30, 1928 | 96 years, 9 days | September 7, 1957 | May 31, 1981 | Malawi |
58 | Louis Edward Gelineau | May 3, 1928 | 96 years, 6 days | June 5, 1953 | January 26, 1972 | United States |
59 | Jacques Despierre | May 6, 1928 | 96 years, 3 days | June 24, 1952 | October 10, 1982 | France |
60 | Pierre Mouallem | May 10, 1928 | 95 years, 365 days | November 21, 1955 | June 29, 1990 | Israel |
61 | Daniel Patrick Reilly | May 12, 1928 | 95 years, 363 days | May 30, 1953 | August 6, 1975 | United States |
62 | Charles Louis Joseph Vandame | June 4, 1928 | 95 years, 340 days | September 7, 1960 | January 6, 1982 | Chad |
63 | Alphonsus Mathias | June 22, 1928 | 95 years, 322 days | August 24, 1954 | February 5, 1964 | India |
64 | Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân | June 24, 1928 | 95 years, 320 days | September 2, 1955 | April 30, 1975 | Vietnam |
65 | Maurice Fréchard | July 3, 1928 | 95 years, 311 days | July 3, 1955 | October 27, 1996 | France |
66 | Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque | July 24, 1928 | 95 years, 290 days | December 8, 1953 | May 5, 1985 | Brazil |
67 | Philippe Bär | July 29, 1928 | 95 years, 285 days | July 26, 1959 | March 20, 1982 | Netherlands |
68 | Ignacio Trejos Picado | July 31, 1928 | 95 years, 283 days | March 8, 1952 | March 8, 1968 | Costa Rica |
69 | Peter Chung Hoan Ting | September 10, 1928 | 95 years, 242 days | September 26, 1954 | November 15, 1970 | Malaysia |
70 | Giuseppe Germano Bernardini | September 27, 1928 | 95 years, 225 days | March 21, 1953 | April 9, 1983 | Türkiye |
71 | Owen Dolan | September 30, 1928 | 95 years, 222 days | July 21, 1954 | December 10, 1995 | New Zealand |
72 | István Katona | October 3, 1928 | 95 years, 219 days | June 7, 1953 | December 9, 1989 | Hungary |
73 | Francisco Barroso Filho | October 8, 1928 | 95 years, 214 days | December 1, 1957 | March 19, 1984 | Brazil |
74 | Ernest Simoni | October 18, 1928 | 95 years, 204 days | April 7, 1956 | Albania | |
75 | Lucas Liu Hsien-tang | December 21, 1928 | 95 years, 140 days | November 30, 1956 | January 1, 1981 | Taiwan |
76 | Adam Exner | December 24, 1928 | 95 years, 137 days | July 7, 1957 | March 12, 1974 | Canada |
77 | Anton Pain Ratu | January 2, 1929 | 95 years, 128 days | August 17, 1958 | September 21, 1982 | Indonesia |
78 | Walter Brandmüller | January 5, 1929 | 95 years, 125 days | July 26, 1953 | November 13, 2010 | Germany |
79 | Melchior Shi Hongzhen | January 7, 1929 | 95 years, 123 days | July 4, 1954 | June 15, 1982 | China |
80 | Fritz Lobinger | January 22, 1929 | 95 years, 108 days | June 29, 1955 | February 27, 1988 | Germany |
81 / 82 | Adalberto Paulo da Silva | January 25, 1929 | 95 years, 105 days | December 8, 1956 | August 3, 1975 | Brazil |
Michael Michai Kitbunchu | December 20, 1959 | June 3, 1973 | Thailand | |||
83 | Edgerton Roland Clarke | February 14, 1929 | 95 years, 85 days | February 2, 1960 | November 30, 1967 | Jamaica |
84 | Jorge Bernal Vargas | February 28, 1929 | 95 years, 71 days | September 15, 1957 | March 19, 1974 | Mexico |
85 | Leo Nowak | March 17, 1929 | 95 years, 53 days | May 10, 1956 | March 24, 1990 | Germany |
86 | Georges Gilson | May 30, 1929 | 94 years, 345 days | April 20, 1957 | October 9, 1976 | France |
87 | Pier Giuliano Tiddia | June 13, 1929 | 94 years, 331 days | December 16, 1951 | February 2, 1975 | Italy |
88 | Paolo Gillet | July 8, 1929 | 94 years, 306 days | September 19, 1953 | January 6, 1994 | Italy |
89 | René Dupont | September 2, 1929 | 94 years, 250 days | June 29, 1953 | July 25, 1969 | France |
90 | Patricio Infante Alfonso | October 9, 1929 | 94 years, 213 days | June 28, 1953 | September 23, 1984 | Chile |
91 | Angelo Mascheroni | October 13, 1929 | 94 years, 209 days | June 13, 1952 | June 24, 1990 | Italy |
92 | Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez | October 18, 1929 | 94 years, 204 days | June 25, 1955 | March 19, 1970 | Cuba |
93 | Antônio de Souza | October 21, 1929 | 94 years, 201 days | July 1, 1956 | April 16, 1974 | Brazil |
94 | Vincenzo Zarri | October 23, 1929 | 94 years, 199 days | July 25, 1952 | June 29, 1976 | Italy |
95 | Paul-Marie Gillaume | October 31, 1929 | 94 years, 191 days | April 9, 1955 | December 9, 1984 | France |
96 | Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal | December 2, 1929 | 94 years, 159 days | August 17, 1958 | September 8, 1972 | Colombia |
97 | José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle | December 3, 1929 | 94 years, 158 days | January 10, 1954 | July 23, 1982 | Brazil |
98 | Ramón Buxarrais Ventura | December 12, 1929 | 94 years, 149 days | December 17, 1955 | October 3, 1971 | Spain |
99 | Jean-Charles Thomas | Decemberber 16, 1929 | 94 years, 145 days | July 5, 1953 | May 1, 1972 | France |
100 | Victorio Oliver Domingo | December 23, 1929 | 94 years, 138 days | June 27, 1954 | October 12, 1972 | Spain |