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, 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 Giuseppe Casale September 28, 1923 100 years, 225 days February 3, 1946 December 8, 1974 Italy
4 Luigi Bettazzi November 26, 1923 100 years, 166 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, 105 days July 3, 1947 April 12, 1981 Poland
7 Peter Takaaki Hirayama March 31, 1924 100 years, 40 days March 19, 1957 January 25, 1970 Japan
8 Settimio Todisco May 10, 1924 100 years, 0 days July 27, 1947 February 15, 1970 Italy
9 Daniel Verstraete July 31, 1924 99 years, 284 days February 19, 1950 May 14, 1978 South Africa
10 Manuel Edmilson da Cruz October 3, 1924 99 years, 220 days December 5, 1948 November 6, 1966 Brazil
11 Albert Houssiau November 2, 1924 99 years, 190 days February 6, 1949 May 18, 1986 Belgium
12 Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña November 7, 1924 99 years, 185 days April 1, 1951 February 2, 1983 Spain
13 Victorinus Youn Kong-hi November 8, 1924 99 years, 184 days March 20, 1950 October 20, 1963 South Korea
14 Gaetano Bonicelli December 13, 1924 99 years, 149 days May 22, 1948 August 26, 1975 Italy
15 Alexandre do Nascimento March 1, 1925 99 years, 70 days December 20, 1952 August 31, 1975 Angola
16 James Hector MacDonald April 28, 1925 99 years, 12 days June 29, 1953 April 17, 1978 Canada
17 Ernest Bertrand Boland July 10, 1925 98 years, 305 days June 9, 1955 July 25, 1966 United States
18 Angelo Acerbi September 23, 1925 98 years, 230 days March 27, 1948 June 30, 1974 Italy
19 Jacques de Saint-Blanquat November 21, 1925 98 years, 171 days March 29, 1952 October 5, 1975 France
20 John R. Gorman December 11, 1925 98 years, 151 days May 1, 1956 April 11, 1988 United States
21 Estanislao Esteban Karlic February 7, 1926 98 years, 93 days December 8, 1954 August 15, 1977 Argentina
22 Maurice Taylor May 5, 1926 98 years, 5 days July 2, 1950 June 9, 1981 United Kingdom
23 Walter Ivan de Azevedo May 8, 1926 98 years, 2 days December 8, 1953 July 27, 1986 Brazil
24 Hildebrando Mendes Costa June 16, 1926 97 years, 329 days December 2, 1951 May 24, 1981 Brazil
25 Emanuele Catarinicchia July 12, 1926 97 years, 303 days April 2, 1949 December 17, 1978 Italy
26 James Chan Soon Cheong July 26, 1926 97 years, 289 days August 6, 1959 June 8, 1973 Malaysia
27 Heitor de Araújo Sales July 29, 1926 97 years, 286 days December 3, 1950 June 16, 1978 Brazil
28 Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto August 11, 1926 97 years, 273 days December 6, 1950 August 28, 1966 Brazil
29 Raúl Holguer López Mayorga August 24, 1926 97 years, 260 days June 29, 1951 April 29, 1973 Ecuador
30 Gilbert Sheldon September 20, 1926 97 years, 233 days February 28, 1953 June 11, 1976 United States
31 Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi November 21, 1926 97 years, 171 days December 17, 1950 December 10, 1982 Italy
32 Emmanuel Wamala December 15, 1926 97 years, 147 days December 21, 1957 November 22, 1981 Uganda
33 Michael Pak Jeong-il December 18, 1926 97 years, 144 days November 23, 1958 May 31, 1977 South Korea
34 Paolo Magnani December 31, 1926 97 years, 131 days June 29, 1951 September 10, 1977 Italy
35 Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol January 25, 1927 97 years, 106 days August 22, 1953 January 6, 1984 South Korea
36 Julian Wojtkowski January 31, 1927 97 years, 100 days June 25, 1950 August 22, 1969 Poland
37 / 38 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
39 Dominic Anthony Marconi March 13, 1927 97 years, 58 days May 30, 1953 June 25, 1976 United States
40 Joseph Pallikaparampil April 10, 1927 97 years, 30 days November 23, 1958 August 15, 1973 India
41 José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui May 20, 1927 96 years, 356 days November 20, 1949 October 25, 1977 Colombia
42 Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral May 25, 1927 96 years, 351 days December 8, 1954 April 20, 1975 Brazil
43 Joseph Martin Sartoris July 1, 1927 96 years, 314 days May 30, 1953 March 19, 1994 United States
44 Alberto Tricarico August 10, 1927 96 years, 274 days January 6, 1950 April 27, 1987 Italy
45 Kazimierz Romaniuk August 21, 1927 96 years, 263 days December 16, 1951 March 4, 1982 Poland
46 Edoardo Rovida August 26, 1927 96 years, 258 days June 29, 1950 October 10, 1971 Italy
47 Abraham Than September 21, 1927 96 years, 232 days September 22, 1957 May 11, 1969 Myanmar
48 Raymond E. Goedert October 15, 1927 96 years, 208 days May 1, 1952 August 29, 1991 United States
49 Júlio Duarte Langa October 27, 1927 96 years, 196 days June 9, 1957 October 24, 1976 Mozambique
50 Pierre Trân Thanh Chung November 10, 1927 96 years, 182 days May 25, 1955 November 22, 1981 Vietnam
51 Daniel Cronin November 14, 1927 96 years, 178 days December 20, 1952 September 12, 1968 United States
52 Raymond Razakarinvony November 19, 1927 96 years, 173 days July 27, 1956 May 17, 1998 Madagascar
53 Bernhard Kühnel December 4, 1927 96 years, 158 days August 6, 1955 April 27, 1983 Germany
54 Vincenzo Rimedio December 5, 1927 96 years, 157 days July 22, 1951 October 28, 1982 Italy
55 Giovanni Zerbini December 29, 1927 96 years, 133 days June 29, 1956 February 19, 1995 Italy
56 Friedrich Wetter February 20, 1928 96 years, 80 days October 10, 1953 June 29, 1968 Germany
57 Robert Joseph Banks February 26, 1928 96 years, 74 days December 20, 1952 September 19, 1985 United States
58 Klaus Dick February 27, 1928 96 years, 73 days February 24, 1953 May 19, 1975 Germany
59 John Stephen Cummins March 3, 1928 96 years, 68 days January 24, 1953 May 16, 1974 United States
60 Gerd Dicke March 28, 1928 96 years, 43 days July 25, 1952 February 16, 1970 Germany
61 Alfred Kleinermeilert March 30, 1928 96 years, 41 days October 10, 1953 May 3, 1968 Germany
62 Peter Henrici March 31, 1928 96 years, 40 days July 23, 1958 May 31, 1993 Switzerland
63 Allan Chamgwera April 30, 1928 96 years, 10 days September 7, 1957 May 31, 1981 Malawi
64 Louis Edward Gelineau May 3, 1928 96 years, 7 days June 5, 1953 January 26, 1972 United States
65 Jacques Despierre May 6, 1928 96 years, 4 days June 24, 1952 October 10, 1982 France
66 Pierre Mouallem May 10, 1928 96 years, 0 days November 21, 1955 June 29, 1990 Israel
67 Daniel Patrick Reilly May 12, 1928 95 years, 364 days May 30, 1953 August 6, 1975 United States
68 Charles Louis Joseph Vandame June 4, 1928 95 years, 341 days September 7, 1960 January 6, 1982 Chad
69 Alphonsus Mathias June 22, 1928 95 years, 323 days August 24, 1954 February 5, 1964 India
70 Jean-Baptiste Bui Tuân June 24, 1928 95 years, 321 days September 2, 1955 April 30, 1975 Vietnam
71 Maurice Fréchard July 3, 1928 95 years, 312 days July 3, 1955 October 27, 1996 France
72 Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque July 24, 1928 95 years, 291 days December 8, 1953 May 5, 1985 Brazil
73 Philippe Bär July 29, 1928 95 years, 286 days July 26, 1959 March 20, 1982 Netherlands
74 Ignacio Trejos Picado July 31, 1928 95 years, 284 days March 8, 1952 March 8, 1968 Costa Rica
75 Peter Chung Hoan Ting September 10, 1928 95 years, 243 days September 26, 1954 November 15, 1970 Malaysia
76 Joseph John Gerry September 12, 1928 95 years, 241 days June 12, 1954 April 21, 1986 United States
77 Giuseppe Germano Bernardini September 27, 1928 95 years, 226 days March 21, 1953 April 9, 1983 Türkiye
78 Owen Dolan September 30, 1928 95 years, 223 days July 21, 1954 December 10, 1995 New Zealand
79 István Katona October 3, 1928 95 years, 220 days June 7, 1953 December 9, 1989 Hungary
80 Francisco Barroso Filho October 8, 1928 95 years, 215 days December 1, 1957 March 19, 1984 Brazil
81 Ernest Simoni October 18, 1928 95 years, 205 days April 7, 1956 Albania
82 Lucas Liu Hsien-tang December 21, 1928 95 years, 141 days November 30, 1956 January 1, 1981 Taiwan
83 Adam Exner December 24, 1928 95 years, 138 days July 7, 1957 March 12, 1974 Canada
84 Anton Pain Ratu January 2, 1929 95 years, 129 days August 17, 1958 September 21, 1982 Indonesia
85 Walter Brandmüller January 5, 1929 95 years, 126 days July 26, 1953 November 13, 2010 Germany
86 Melchior Shi Hongzhen January 7, 1929 95 years, 124 days July 4, 1954 June 15, 1982 China
87 Fritz Lobinger January 22, 1929 95 years, 109 days June 29, 1955 February 27, 1988 Germany
88 / 89 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
90 Edgerton Roland Clarke February 14, 1929 95 years, 86 days February 2, 1960 November 30, 1967 Jamaica
91 Jorge Bernal Vargas February 28, 1929 95 years, 72 days September 15, 1957 March 19, 1974 Mexico
92 Leo Nowak March 17, 1929 95 years, 54 days May 10, 1956 March 24, 1990 Germany
93 Georges Gilson May 30, 1929 94 years, 346 days April 20, 1957 October 9, 1976 France
94 Pier Giuliano Tiddia June 13, 1929 94 years, 332 days December 16, 1951 February 2, 1975 Italy
95 Paolo Gillet July 8, 1929 94 years, 307 days September 19, 1953 January 6, 1994 Italy
96 René Dupont September 2, 1929 94 years, 251 days June 29, 1953 July 25, 1969 France
97 Patricio Infante Alfonso October 9, 1929 94 years, 214 days June 28, 1953 September 23, 1984 Chile
98 Angelo Mascheroni October 13, 1929 94 years, 210 days June 13, 1952 June 24, 1990 Italy
99 Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez October 18, 1929 94 years, 205 days June 25, 1955 March 19, 1970 Cuba
100 Antônio de Souza October 21, 1929 94 years, 202 days July 1, 1956 April 16, 1974 Brazil