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, 147 days May 28, 1946 September 8, 1961 Mexico
2 René Henry Gracida June 9, 1923 100 years, 353 days May 23, 1959 January 25, 1972 United States
3 Giuseppe Casale September 28, 1923 100 years, 242 days February 3, 1946 December 8, 1974 Italy
4 Luigi Bettazzi November 26, 1923 100 years, 183 days August 4, 1946 October 4, 1963 Italy
5 Thomas Zhao Duomo 1924 98–99 years 1951 February 17, 2004 China
6 Stanisław Szymecki January 26, 1924 100 years, 122 days July 3, 1947 April 12, 1981 Poland
7 Peter Takaaki Hirayama March 31, 1924 100 years, 57 days March 19, 1957 January 25, 1970 Japan
8 Settimio Todisco May 10, 1924 100 years, 17 days July 27, 1947 February 15, 1970 Italy
9 Daniel Verstraete July 31, 1924 99 years, 301 days February 19, 1950 May 14, 1978 South Africa
10 Manuel Edmilson da Cruz October 3, 1924 99 years, 237 days December 5, 1948 November 6, 1966 Brazil
11 Albert Houssiau November 2, 1924 99 years, 207 days February 6, 1949 May 18, 1986 Belgium
12 Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña November 7, 1924 99 years, 202 days April 1, 1951 February 2, 1983 Spain
13 Victorinus Youn Kong-hi November 8, 1924 99 years, 201 days March 20, 1950 October 20, 1963 South Korea
14 Gaetano Bonicelli December 13, 1924 99 years, 166 days May 22, 1948 August 26, 1975 Italy
15 Alexandre do Nascimento March 1, 1925 99 years, 87 days December 20, 1952 August 31, 1975 Angola
16 James Hector MacDonald April 28, 1925 99 years, 29 days June 29, 1953 April 17, 1978 Canada
17 Ernest Bertrand Boland July 10, 1925 98 years, 322 days June 9, 1955 July 25, 1966 United States
18 Angelo Acerbi September 23, 1925 98 years, 247 days March 27, 1948 June 30, 1974 Italy
19 Jacques de Saint-Blanquat November 21, 1925 98 years, 188 days March 29, 1952 October 5, 1975 France
20 John R. Gorman December 11, 1925 98 years, 168 days May 1, 1956 April 11, 1988 United States
21 Estanislao Esteban Karlic February 7, 1926 98 years, 110 days December 8, 1954 August 15, 1977 Argentina
22 Maurice Taylor May 5, 1926 98 years, 22 days July 2, 1950 June 9, 1981 United Kingdom
23 Walter Ivan de Azevedo May 8, 1926 98 years, 19 days December 8, 1953 July 27, 1986 Brazil
24 Hildebrando Mendes Costa June 16, 1926 97 years, 346 days December 2, 1951 May 24, 1981 Brazil
25 Emanuele Catarinicchia July 12, 1926 97 years, 320 days April 2, 1949 December 17, 1978 Italy
26 James Chan Soon Cheong July 26, 1926 97 years, 306 days August 6, 1959 June 8, 1973 Malaysia
27 Heitor de Araújo Sales July 29, 1926 97 years, 303 days December 3, 1950 June 16, 1978 Brazil
28 Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto August 11, 1926 97 years, 290 days December 6, 1950 August 28, 1966 Brazil
29 Raúl Holguer López Mayorga August 24, 1926 97 years, 277 days June 29, 1951 April 29, 1973 Ecuador
30 Gilbert Sheldon September 20, 1926 97 years, 250 days February 28, 1953 June 11, 1976 United States
31 Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi November 21, 1926 97 years, 188 days December 17, 1950 December 10, 1982 Italy
32 Emmanuel Wamala December 15, 1926 97 years, 164 days December 21, 1957 November 22, 1981 Uganda
33 Michael Pak Jeong-il December 18, 1926 97 years, 161 days November 23, 1958 May 31, 1977 South Korea
34 Paolo Magnani December 31, 1926 97 years, 148 days June 29, 1951 September 10, 1977 Italy
35 Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol January 25, 1927 97 years, 123 days August 22, 1953 January 6, 1984 South Korea
36 Julian Wojtkowski January 31, 1927 97 years, 117 days June 25, 1950 August 22, 1969 Poland
37 / 38 Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno February 14, 1927 97 years, 103 days June 29, 1953 March 3, 1990 Ecuador
Gilberto Pereira Lopes December 14, 1949 December 18, 1969 Brazil
39 Senan Louis O'Donnell February 24, 1927 97 years, 93 days July 17, 1955 November 28, 1993 Ireland
40 Dominic Anthony Marconi March 13, 1927 97 years, 75 days May 30, 1953 June 25, 1976 United States
41 Joseph Pallikaparampil April 10, 1927 97 years, 47 days November 23, 1958 August 15, 1973 India
42 José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui May 20, 1927 97 years, 7 days November 20, 1949 October 25, 1977 Colombia
43 Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral May 25, 1927 97 years, 2 days December 8, 1954 April 20, 1975 Brazil
44 Joseph Martin Sartoris July 1, 1927 96 years, 331 days May 30, 1953 March 19, 1994 United States
45 James Timlin August 5, 1927 96 years, 296 days July 16, 1951 September 21, 1976 United States
46 Alberto Tricarico August 10, 1927 96 years, 291 days January 6, 1950 April 27, 1987 Italy
47 Kazimierz Romaniuk August 21, 1927 96 years, 280 days December 16, 1951 March 4, 1982 Poland
48 Edoardo Rovida August 26, 1927 96 years, 275 days June 29, 1950 October 10, 1971 Italy
49 Abraham Than September 21, 1927 96 years, 249 days September 22, 1957 May 11, 1969 Myanmar
50 Raymond E. Goedert October 15, 1927 96 years, 225 days May 1, 1952 August 29, 1991 United States
51 Júlio Duarte Langa October 27, 1927 96 years, 213 days June 9, 1957 October 24, 1976 Mozambique
52 Pierre Trân Thanh Chung November 10, 1927 96 years, 199 days May 25, 1955 November 22, 1981 Vietnam
53 Daniel Cronin November 14, 1927 96 years, 195 days December 20, 1952 September 12, 1968 United States
54 Raymond Razakarinvony November 19, 1927 96 years, 190 days July 27, 1956 May 17, 1998 Madagascar
55 Bernhard Kühnel December 4, 1927 96 years, 175 days August 6, 1955 April 27, 1983 Germany
56 Vincenzo Rimedio December 5, 1927 96 years, 174 days July 22, 1951 October 28, 1982 Italy
57 Giovanni Zerbini December 29, 1927 96 years, 150 days June 29, 1956 February 19, 1995 Italy
58 Friedrich Wetter February 20, 1928 96 years, 97 days October 10, 1953 June 29, 1968 Germany
59 Robert Joseph Banks February 26, 1928 96 years, 91 days December 20, 1952 September 19, 1985 United States
60 Klaus Dick February 27, 1928 96 years, 90 days February 24, 1953 May 19, 1975 Germany
61 John Stephen Cummins March 3, 1928 96 years, 85 days January 24, 1953 May 16, 1974 United States
62 Gerd Dicke March 28, 1928 96 years, 60 days July 25, 1952 February 16, 1970 Germany
63 Alfred Kleinermeilert March 30, 1928 96 years, 58 days October 10, 1953 May 3, 1968 Germany
64 Peter Henrici March 31, 1928 96 years, 57 days July 23, 1958 May 31, 1993 Switzerland
65 Allan Chamgwera April 30, 1928 96 years, 27 days September 7, 1957 May 31, 1981 Malawi
66 Louis Edward Gelineau May 3, 1928 96 years, 24 days June 5, 1953 January 26, 1972 United States
67 Jacques Despierre May 6, 1928 96 years, 21 days June 24, 1952 October 10, 1982 France
68 Pierre Mouallem May 10, 1928 96 years, 17 days November 21, 1955 June 29, 1990 Israel
69 Daniel Patrick Reilly May 12, 1928 96 years, 15 days May 30, 1953 August 6, 1975 United States
70 Charles Louis Joseph Vandame June 4, 1928 95 years, 358 days September 7, 1960 January 6, 1982 Chad
71 Alphonsus Mathias June 22, 1928 95 years, 340 days August 24, 1954 February 5, 1964 India
72 Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân June 24, 1928 95 years, 338 days September 2, 1955 April 30, 1975 Vietnam
73 Maurice Fréchard July 3, 1928 95 years, 329 days July 3, 1955 October 27, 1996 France
74 Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque July 24, 1928 95 years, 308 days December 8, 1953 May 5, 1985 Brazil
75 Philippe Bär July 29, 1928 95 years, 303 days July 26, 1959 March 20, 1982 Netherlands
76 Ignacio Trejos Picado July 31, 1928 95 years, 301 days March 8, 1952 March 8, 1968 Costa Rica
77 Peter Chung Hoan Ting September 10, 1928 95 years, 260 days September 26, 1954 November 15, 1970 Malaysia
78 Joseph John Gerry September 12, 1928 95 years, 258 days June 12, 1954 April 21, 1986 United States
79 Giuseppe Germano Bernardini September 27, 1928 95 years, 243 days March 21, 1953 April 9, 1983 Türkiye
80 Owen Dolan September 30, 1928 95 years, 240 days July 21, 1954 December 10, 1995 New Zealand
81 István Katona October 3, 1928 95 years, 237 days June 7, 1953 December 9, 1989 Hungary
82 Francisco Barroso Filho October 8, 1928 95 years, 232 days December 1, 1957 March 19, 1984 Brazil
83 José Francisco Moreira dos Santos October 12, 1928 95 years, 228 days January 20, 1952 April 30, 1967 Portugal
84 Ernest Simoni October 18, 1928 95 years, 222 days April 7, 1956 Albania
85 Lucas Liu Hsien-tang December 21, 1928 95 years, 158 days November 30, 1956 January 1, 1981 Taiwan
86 Adam Exner December 24, 1928 95 years, 155 days July 7, 1957 March 12, 1974 Canada
87 Anton Pain Ratu January 2, 1929 95 years, 146 days August 17, 1958 September 21, 1982 Indonesia
88 Walter Brandmüller January 5, 1929 95 years, 143 days July 26, 1953 November 13, 2010 Germany
89 Melchior Shi Hongzhen January 7, 1929 95 years, 141 days July 4, 1954 June 15, 1982 China
90 Fritz Lobinger January 22, 1929 95 years, 126 days June 29, 1955 February 27, 1988 Germany
91 / 92 Adalberto Paulo da Silva January 25, 1929 95 years, 123 days December 8, 1956 August 3, 1975 Brazil
Michael Michai Kitbunchu December 20, 1959 June 3, 1973 Thailand
93 Edgerton Roland Clarke February 14, 1929 95 years, 103 days February 2, 1960 November 30, 1967 Jamaica
94 Jorge Bernal Vargas February 28, 1929 95 years, 89 days September 15, 1957 March 19, 1974 Mexico
95 Leo Nowak March 17, 1929 95 years, 71 days May 10, 1956 March 24, 1990 Germany
96 Georges Gilson May 30, 1929 94 years, 363 days April 20, 1957 October 9, 1976 France
97 Pier Giuliano Tiddia June 13, 1929 94 years, 349 days December 16, 1951 February 2, 1975 Italy
98 Paolo Gillet July 8, 1929 94 years, 324 days September 19, 1953 January 6, 1994 Italy
99 René Dupont September 2, 1929 94 years, 268 days June 29, 1953 July 25, 1969 France
100 Patricio Infante Alfonso October 9, 1929 94 years, 231 days June 28, 1953 September 23, 1984 Chile