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 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
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