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 9 cardinals and 91 bishops.

List

Rank	Bishop or Cardinal	Date of birth	Age (years, days)	Ordained Priest	Consecrated Bishop	Country
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	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	100 years, 0 days	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy
4	Daniel Verstraete	July 31, 1924	99 years, 284 days	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa
5	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	October 3, 1924	99 years, 220 days	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	Brazil
6	Albert Houssiau	November 2, 1924	99 years, 190 days	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	Belgium
7	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	November 7, 1924	99 years, 185 days	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	Spain
8	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	November 8, 1924	99 years, 184 days	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	South Korea
9	Gaetano Bonicelli	December 13, 1924	99 years, 149 days	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	Italy
3-10	Thomas Zhao Duomo	1924	99 years, 131 days to 100 years, 130 days	1951	February 17, 2004	China
11	Alexandre do Nascimento	March 1, 1925	99 years, 70 days	December 20, 1952	August 31, 1975	Angola
12	James Hector MacDonald	April 28, 1925	99 years, 12 days	June 29, 1953	April 17, 1978	Canada
13	Angelo Acerbi	September 23, 1925	98 years, 230 days	March 27, 1948	June 30, 1974	Italy
14	Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	November 21, 1925	98 years, 171 days	March 29, 1952	October 5, 1975	France
15	John R. Gorman	December 11, 1925	98 years, 151 days	May 1, 1956	April 11, 1988	United States
16	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	February 7, 1926	98 years, 93 days	December 8, 1954	August 15, 1977	Argentina
17	Walter Ivan de Azevedo	May 8, 1926	98 years, 2 days	December 8, 1953	July 27, 1986	Brazil
18	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	June 16, 1926	97 years, 329 days	December 2, 1951	May 24, 1981	Brazil
19	Emanuele Catarinicchia	July 12, 1926	97 years, 303 days	April 2, 1949	December 17, 1978	Italy
20	Heitor de Araújo Sales	July 29, 1926	97 years, 286 days	December 3, 1950	June 16, 1978	Brazil
21	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	August 11, 1926	97 years, 273 days	December 6, 1950	August 28, 1966	Brazil
22	Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	August 24, 1926	97 years, 260 days	June 29, 1951	April 29, 1973	Ecuador
23	Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi	November 21, 1926	97 years, 171 days	December 17, 1950	December 10, 1982	Italy
24	Emmanuel Wamala	December 15, 1926	97 years, 147 days	December 21, 1957	November 22, 1981	Uganda
25	Michael Pak Jeong-il	December 18, 1926	97 years, 144 days	November 23, 1958	May 31, 1977	South Korea
26	Paolo Magnani	December 31, 1926	97 years, 131 days	June 29, 1951	September 10, 1977	Italy
27	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	January 25, 1927	97 years, 106 days	August 22, 1953	January 6, 1984	South Korea
28	Julian Wojtkowski	January 31, 1927	97 years, 100 days	June 25, 1950	August 22, 1969	Poland
29	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
31	Dominic Anthony Marconi	March 13, 1927	97 years, 58 days	May 30, 1953	June 25, 1976	United States
32	Joseph Pallikaparampil	April 10, 1927	97 years, 30 days	November 23, 1958	August 15, 1973	India
33	José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui	May 20, 1927	96 years, 356 days	November 20, 1949	October 25, 1977	Colombia
34	Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral	May 25, 1927	96 years, 351 days	December 8, 1954	April 20, 1975	Brazil
35	Joseph Martin Sartoris	July 1, 1927	96 years, 314 days	May 30, 1953	March 19, 1994	United States
36	Alberto Tricarico	August 10, 1927	96 years, 274 days	January 6, 1950	April 27, 1987	Italy
37	Kazimierz Romaniuk	August 21, 1927	96 years, 263 days	December 16, 1951	March 4, 1982	Poland
38	Edoardo Rovida	August 26, 1927	96 years, 258 days	June 29, 1950	October 10, 1971	Italy
39	Abraham Than	September 21, 1927	96 years, 232 days	September 22, 1957	May 11, 1969	Myanmar
40	Raymond E. Goedert	October 15, 1927	96 years, 208 days	May 1, 1952	August 29, 1991	United States
41	Júlio Duarte Langa	October 27, 1927	96 years, 196 days	June 9, 1957	October 24, 1976	Mozambique
42	Daniel Cronin	November 14, 1927	96 years, 178 days	December 20, 1952	September 12, 1968	United States
43	Raymond Razakarinvony	November 19, 1927	96 years, 173 days	July 27, 1956	May 17, 1998	Madagascar
44	Bernhard Kühnel	December 4, 1927	96 years, 158 days	August 6, 1955	April 27, 1983	Germany
45	Vincenzo Rimedio	December 5, 1927	96 years, 157 days	July 22, 1951	October 28, 1982	Italy
46	Giovanni Zerbini	December 29, 1927	96 years, 133 days	June 29, 1956	February 19, 1995	Italy
47	Friedrich Wetter	February 20, 1928	96 years, 80 days	October 10, 1953	June 29, 1968	Germany
48	Robert Joseph Banks	February 26, 1928	96 years, 74 days	December 20, 1952	September 19, 1985	United States
49	Klaus Dick	February 27, 1928	96 years, 73 days	February 24, 1953	May 19, 1975	Germany
50	John Stephen Cummins	March 3, 1928	96 years, 68 days	January 24, 1953	May 16, 1974	United States
51	Gerd Dicke	March 28, 1928	96 years, 43 days	July 25, 1952	February 16, 1970	Germany
52	Alfred Kleinermeilert	March 30, 1928	96 years, 41 days	October 10, 1953	May 3, 1968	Germany
53	Allan Chamgwera	April 30, 1928	96 years, 10 days	September 7, 1957	May 31, 1981	Malawi
54	Louis Edward Gelineau	May 3, 1928	96 years, 7 days	June 5, 1953	January 26, 1972	United States
55	Jacques Despierre	May 6, 1928	96 years, 4 days	June 24, 1952	October 10, 1982	France
56	Pierre Mouallem	May 10, 1928	96 years, 0 days	November 21, 1955	June 29, 1990	Israel
57	Daniel Patrick Reilly	May 12, 1928	95 years, 364 days	May 30, 1953	August 6, 1975	United States
58	Charles Louis Joseph Vandame	June 4, 1928	95 years, 341 days	September 7, 1960	January 6, 1982	Chad
59	Alphonsus Mathias	June 22, 1928	95 years, 323 days	August 24, 1954	February 5, 1964	India
60	Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân	June 24, 1928	95 years, 321 days	September 2, 1955	April 30, 1975	Vietnam
61	Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque	July 24, 1928	95 years, 291 days	December 8, 1953	May 5, 1985	Brazil
62	Philippe Bär	July 29, 1928	95 years, 286 days	July 26, 1959	March 20, 1982	Netherlands
63	Ignacio Trejos Picado	July 31, 1928	95 years, 284 days	March 8, 1952	March 8, 1968	Costa Rica
64	Peter Chung Hoan Ting	September 10, 1928	95 years, 243 days	September 26, 1954	November 15, 1970	Malaysia
65	Giuseppe Germano Bernardini	September 27, 1928	95 years, 226 days	March 21, 1953	April 9, 1983	Türkiye
66	Owen Dolan	September 30, 1928	95 years, 223 days	July 21, 1954	December 10, 1995	New Zealand
67	István Katona	October 3, 1928	95 years, 220 days	June 7, 1953	December 9, 1989	Hungary
68	Francisco Barroso Filho	October 8, 1928	95 years, 215 days	December 1, 1957	March 19, 1984	Brazil
69	Ernest Simoni	October 18, 1928	95 years, 205 days	April 7, 1956		Albania
70	Lucas Liu Hsien-tang	December 21, 1928	95 years, 141 days	November 30, 1956	January 1, 1981	Taiwan
71	Anton Pain Ratu	January 2, 1929	95 years, 129 days	August 17, 1958	September 21, 1982	Indonesia
72	Walter Brandmüller	January 5, 1929	95 years, 126 days	July 26, 1953	November 13, 2010	Germany
73	Melchior Shi Hongzhen	January 7, 1929	95 years, 124 days	July 4, 1954	June 15, 1982	China
74	Fritz Lobinger	January 22, 1929	95 years, 109 days	June 29, 1955	February 27, 1988	Germany
75	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
77	Edgerton Roland Clarke	February 14, 1929	95 years, 86 days	February 2, 1960	November 30, 1967	Jamaica
78	Leo Nowak	March 17, 1929	95 years, 54 days	May 10, 1956	March 24, 1990	Germany
79	Georges Gilson	May 30, 1929	94 years, 346 days	April 20, 1957	October 9, 1976	France
80	Pier Giuliano Tiddia	June 13, 1929	94 years, 332 days	December 16, 1951	February 2, 1975	Italy
81	Paolo Gillet	July 8, 1929	94 years, 307 days	September 19, 1953	January 6, 1994	Italy
82	René Dupont	September 2, 1929	94 years, 251 days	June 29, 1953	July 25, 1969	France
83	Patricio Infante Alfonso	October 9, 1929	94 years, 214 days	June 28, 1953	September 23, 1984	Chile
84	Angelo Mascheroni	October 13, 1929	94 years, 210 days	June 13, 1952	June 24, 1990	Italy
85	Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez	October 18, 1929	94 years, 205 days	June 25, 1955	March 19, 1970	Cuba
86	Antônio de Souza	October 21, 1929	94 years, 202 days	July 1, 1956	April 16, 1974	Brazil
87	Vincenzo Zarri	October 23, 1929	94 years, 200 days	July 25, 1952	June 29, 1976	Italy
88	Paul-Marie Gillaume	October 31, 1929	94 years, 192 days	April 9, 1955	December 9, 1984	France
89	Ignacio Gómez Aristizábal	December 2, 1929	94 years, 160 days	August 17, 1958	September 8, 1972	Colombia
90	José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle	December 3, 1929	94 years, 159 days	January 10, 1954	July 23, 1982	Brazil
91	Ramón Buxarrais Ventura	December 12, 1929	94 years, 150 days	December 17, 1955	October 3, 1971	Spain
92	Jean-Charles Thomas	Decemberber 16, 1929	94 years, 146 days	July 5, 1953	May 1, 1972	France
93	Victorio Oliver Domingo	December 23, 1929	94 years, 139 days	June 27, 1954	October 12, 1972	Spain
94	Thomas Gumbleton	January 26, 1930	94 years, 105 days	June 2, 1956	May 1, 1968	United States
95	Miguel Caviedes	January 30, 1930	94 years, 101 days	September 18, 1954	December 19, 1982	Chile
96	Jean Bonfils	February 15, 1930	94 years, 85 days	December 7, 1954	January 10, 1993	France
97	Pedro Dean	February 21, 1930	94 years, 79 days	November 30, 1956	January 25, 1978	Philippines
98	David Cremin	February 22, 1930	94 years, 78 days	June 12, 1955	January 19, 1974	Australia
99	Francesco Cuccarese	March 8, 1930	94 years, 63 days	July 19, 1953	April 1, 1979	Italy
100	Adam Joseph Maida	March 18, 1930	94 years, 53 days	May 26, 1956	January 25, 1984	United States

See Also

• List of longest-living Cardinals
• List of current cardinals