List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals
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 8 cardinals and 92 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, 130 days | May 28, 1946 | September 8, 1961 | Mexico |
2 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | 100 years, 336 days | May 23, 1959 | January 25, 1972 | United States |
3 | Stanisław Szymecki | January 26, 1924 | 100 years, 105 days | July 3, 1947 | April 12, 1981 | Poland |
4 | Settimio Todisco | May 10, 1924 | 100 years, 0 days | July 27, 1947 | February 15, 1970 | Italy |
5 | Daniel Verstraete | July 31, 1924 | 99 years, 284 days | February 19, 1950 | May 14, 1978 | South Africa |
6 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | 99 years, 220 days | December 5, 1948 | November 6, 1966 | Brazil |
7 | Albert Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | 99 years, 190 days | February 6, 1949 | May 18, 1986 | Belgium |
8 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | 99 years, 185 days | April 1, 1951 | February 2, 1983 | Spain |
9 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | 99 years, 184 days | March 20, 1950 | October 20, 1963 | South Korea |
10 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | 99 years, 149 days | May 22, 1948 | August 26, 1975 | Italy |
3-11 | Thomas Zhao Duomo | 1924 | 99 years, 131 days to 100 years, 130 days | 1951 | February 17, 2004 | China |
12 | Alexandre do Nascimento | March 1, 1925 | 99 years, 70 days | December 20, 1952 | August 31, 1975 | Angola |
13 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | 99 years, 12 days | June 29, 1953 | April 17, 1978 | Canada |
14 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | 98 years, 230 days | March 27, 1948 | June 30, 1974 | Italy |
15 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | 98 years, 171 days | March 29, 1952 | October 5, 1975 | France |
16 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | 98 years, 151 days | May 1, 1956 | April 11, 1988 | United States |
17 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | February 7, 1926 | 98 years, 93 days | December 8, 1954 | August 15, 1977 | Argentina |
18 | Walter Ivan de Azevedo | May 8, 1926 | 98 years, 2 days | December 8, 1953 | July 27, 1986 | Brazil |
19 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | 97 years, 329 days | December 2, 1951 | May 24, 1981 | Brazil |
20 | Emanuele Catarinicchia | July 12, 1926 | 97 years, 303 days | April 2, 1949 | December 17, 1978 | Italy |
21 | Heitor de Araújo Sales | July 29, 1926 | 97 years, 286 days | December 3, 1950 | June 16, 1978 | Brazil |
22 | Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | August 11, 1926 | 97 years, 273 days | December 6, 1950 | August 28, 1966 | Brazil |
23 | Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | August 24, 1926 | 97 years, 260 days | June 29, 1951 | April 29, 1973 | Ecuador |
24 | Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi | November 21, 1926 | 97 years, 171 days | December 17, 1950 | December 10, 1982 | Italy |
25 | Emmanuel Wamala | December 15, 1926 | 97 years, 147 days | December 21, 1957 | November 22, 1981 | Uganda |
26 | Michael Pak Jeong-il | December 18, 1926 | 97 years, 144 days | November 23, 1958 | May 31, 1977 | South Korea |
27 | Paolo Magnani | December 31, 1926 | 97 years, 131 days | June 29, 1951 | September 10, 1977 | Italy |
28 | Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | January 25, 1927 | 97 years, 106 days | August 22, 1953 | January 6, 1984 | South Korea |
29 | Julian Wojtkowski | January 31, 1927 | 97 years, 100 days | June 25, 1950 | August 22, 1969 | Poland |
30 | Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno | February 14, 1927 | 97 years, 86 days | June 29, 1953 | March 3, 1990 | Ecuador |
Gilberto Pereira Lopes | December 14, 1949 | December 18, 1969 | Brazil | |||
32 | Dominic Anthony Marconi | March 13, 1927 | 97 years, 58 days | May 30, 1953 | June 25, 1976 | United States |
33 | Joseph Pallikaparampil | April 10, 1927 | 97 years, 30 days | November 23, 1958 | August 15, 1973 | India |
34 | José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui | May 20, 1927 | 96 years, 356 days | November 20, 1949 | October 25, 1977 | Colombia |
35 | Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral | May 25, 1927 | 96 years, 351 days | December 8, 1954 | April 20, 1975 | Brazil |
36 | Joseph Martin Sartoris | July 1, 1927 | 96 years, 314 days | May 30, 1953 | March 19, 1994 | United States |
37 | Alberto Tricarico | August 10, 1927 | 96 years, 274 days | January 6, 1950 | April 27, 1987 | Italy |
38 | Kazimierz Romaniuk | August 21, 1927 | 96 years, 263 days | December 16, 1951 | March 4, 1982 | Poland |
39 | Edoardo Rovida | August 26, 1927 | 96 years, 258 days | June 29, 1950 | October 10, 1971 | Italy |
40 | Abraham Than | September 21, 1927 | 96 years, 232 days | September 22, 1957 | May 11, 1969 | Myanmar |
41 | Raymond E. Goedert | October 15, 1927 | 96 years, 208 days | May 1, 1952 | August 29, 1991 | United States |
42 | Júlio Duarte Langa | October 27, 1927 | 96 years, 196 days | June 9, 1957 | October 24, 1976 | Mozambique |
43 | Pierre Trân Thanh Chung | November 10, 1927 | 96 years, 182 days | May 25, 1955 | November 22, 1981 | Vietnam |
44 | Daniel Cronin | November 14, 1927 | 96 years, 178 days | December 20, 1952 | September 12, 1968 | United States |
45 | Raymond Razakarinvony | November 19, 1927 | 96 years, 173 days | July 27, 1956 | May 17, 1998 | Madagascar |
46 | Bernhard Kühnel | December 4, 1927 | 96 years, 158 days | August 6, 1955 | April 27, 1983 | Germany |
47 | Vincenzo Rimedio | December 5, 1927 | 96 years, 157 days | July 22, 1951 | October 28, 1982 | Italy |
48 | Giovanni Zerbini | December 29, 1927 | 96 years, 133 days | June 29, 1956 | February 19, 1995 | Italy |
49 | Friedrich Wetter | February 20, 1928 | 96 years, 80 days | October 10, 1953 | June 29, 1968 | Germany |
50 | Robert Joseph Banks | February 26, 1928 | 96 years, 74 days | December 20, 1952 | September 19, 1985 | United States |
51 | Klaus Dick | February 27, 1928 | 96 years, 73 days | February 24, 1953 | May 19, 1975 | Germany |
52 | John Stephen Cummins | March 3, 1928 | 96 years, 68 days | January 24, 1953 | May 16, 1974 | United States |
53 | Gerd Dicke | March 28, 1928 | 96 years, 43 days | July 25, 1952 | February 16, 1970 | Germany |
54 | Alfred Kleinermeilert | March 30, 1928 | 96 years, 41 days | October 10, 1953 | May 3, 1968 | Germany |
55 | Allan Chamgwera | April 30, 1928 | 96 years, 10 days | September 7, 1957 | May 31, 1981 | Malawi |
56 | Louis Edward Gelineau | May 3, 1928 | 96 years, 7 days | June 5, 1953 | January 26, 1972 | United States |
57 | Jacques Despierre | May 6, 1928 | 96 years, 4 days | June 24, 1952 | October 10, 1982 | France |
58 | Pierre Mouallem | May 10, 1928 | 96 years, 0 days | November 21, 1955 | June 29, 1990 | Israel |
59 | Daniel Patrick Reilly | May 12, 1928 | 95 years, 364 days | May 30, 1953 | August 6, 1975 | United States |
60 | Charles Louis Joseph Vandame | June 4, 1928 | 95 years, 341 days | September 7, 1960 | January 6, 1982 | Chad |
61 | Alphonsus Mathias | June 22, 1928 | 95 years, 323 days | August 24, 1954 | February 5, 1964 | India |
62 | Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân | June 24, 1928 | 95 years, 321 days | September 2, 1955 | April 30, 1975 | Vietnam |
63 | Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque | July 24, 1928 | 95 years, 291 days | December 8, 1953 | May 5, 1985 | Brazil |
64 | Philippe Bär | July 29, 1928 | 95 years, 286 days | July 26, 1959 | March 20, 1982 | Netherlands |
65 | Ignacio Trejos Picado | July 31, 1928 | 95 years, 284 days | March 8, 1952 | March 8, 1968 | Costa Rica |
66 | Peter Chung Hoan Ting | September 10, 1928 | 95 years, 243 days | September 26, 1954 | November 15, 1970 | Malaysia |
67 | Giuseppe Germano Bernardini | September 27, 1928 | 95 years, 226 days | March 21, 1953 | April 9, 1983 | Türkiye |
68 | Owen Dolan | September 30, 1928 | 95 years, 223 days | July 21, 1954 | December 10, 1995 | New Zealand |
69 | István Katona | October 3, 1928 | 95 years, 220 days | June 7, 1953 | December 9, 1989 | Hungary |
70 | Francisco Barroso Filho | October 8, 1928 | 95 years, 215 days | December 1, 1957 | March 19, 1984 | Brazil |
71 | Ernest Simoni | October 18, 1928 | 95 years, 205 days | April 7, 1956 | Albania | |
72 | Lucas Liu Hsien-tang | December 21, 1928 | 95 years, 141 days | November 30, 1956 | January 1, 1981 | Taiwan |
73 | Adam Exner | December 24, 1928 | 95 years, 138 days | July 7, 1957 | March 12, 1974 | Canada |
74 | Anton Pain Ratu | January 2, 1929 | 95 years, 129 days | August 17, 1958 | September 21, 1982 | Indonesia |
75 | Walter Brandmüller | January 5, 1929 | 95 years, 126 days | July 26, 1953 | November 13, 2010 | Germany |
76 | Melchior Shi Hongzhen | January 7, 1929 | 95 years, 124 days | July 4, 1954 | June 15, 1982 | China |
77 | Fritz Lobinger | January 22, 1929 | 95 years, 109 days | June 29, 1955 | February 27, 1988 | Germany |
78 | Adalberto Paulo da Silva | January 25, 1929 | 95 years, 106 days | December 8, 1956 | August 3, 1975 | Brazil |
Michael Michai Kitbunchu | December 20, 1959 | June 3, 1973 | Thailand | |||
80 | Edgerton Roland Clarke | February 14, 1929 | 95 years, 86 days | February 2, 1960 | November 30, 1967 | Jamaica |
81 | Leo Nowak | March 17, 1929 | 95 years, 54 days | May 10, 1956 | March 24, 1990 | Germany |
82 | Georges Gilson | May 30, 1929 | 94 years, 346 days | April 20, 1957 | October 9, 1976 | France |
83 | Pier Giuliano Tiddia | June 13, 1929 | 94 years, 332 days | December 16, 1951 | February 2, 1975 | Italy |
84 | Paolo Gillet | July 8, 1929 | 94 years, 307 days | September 19, 1953 | January 6, 1994 | Italy |
85 | René Dupont | September 2, 1929 | 94 years, 251 days | June 29, 1953 | July 25, 1969 | France |
86 | Patricio Infante Alfonso | October 9, 1929 | 94 years, 214 days | June 28, 1953 | September 23, 1984 | Chile |
87 | Angelo Mascheroni | October 13, 1929 | 94 years, 210 days | June 13, 1952 | June 24, 1990 | Italy |
88 | Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez | October 18, 1929 | 94 years, 205 days | June 25, 1955 | March 19, 1970 | Cuba |
89 | Antônio de Souza | October 21, 1929 | 94 years, 202 days | July 1, 1956 | April 16, 1974 | Brazil |
90 | Vincenzo Zarri | October 23, 1929 | 94 years, 200 days | July 25, 1952 | June 29, 1976 | Italy |
91 | Paul-Marie Gillaume | October 31, 1929 | 94 years, 192 days | April 9, 1955 | December 9, 1984 | France |
92 | Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal | December 2, 1929 | 94 years, 160 days | August 17, 1958 | September 8, 1972 | Colombia |
93 | José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle | December 3, 1929 | 94 years, 159 days | January 10, 1954 | July 23, 1982 | Brazil |
94 | Ramón Buxarrais Ventura | December 12, 1929 | 94 years, 150 days | December 17, 1955 | October 3, 1971 | Spain |
95 | Jean-Charles Thomas | Decemberber 16, 1929 | 94 years, 146 days | July 5, 1953 | May 1, 1972 | France |
96 | Victorio Oliver Domingo | December 23, 1929 | 94 years, 139 days | June 27, 1954 | October 12, 1972 | Spain |
97 | Thomas Gumbleton | January 26, 1930 | 94 years, 105 days | June 2, 1956 | May 1, 1968 | United States |
98 | Miguel Caviedes | January 30, 1930 | 94 years, 101 days | September 18, 1954 | December 19, 1982 | Chile |
99 | Jean Bonfils | February 15, 1930 | 94 years, 85 days | December 7, 1954 | January 10, 1993 | France |
100 | Pedro Dean | February 21, 1930 | 94 years, 79 days | November 30, 1956 | January 25, 1978 | Philippines |