Original listings of longest-living cardinals and state leaders

This is an original listing for the longest-living state leaders and cardinals. As of 30 Nov 2008

Longest-living state leaders

Gallery

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  Oldest ever:
  Turkey
  Celål Bayar
  served 1937–1939, 1950–1960

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  2nd-Oldest ever:
   Cambodia
  Chau Sen Cocsal Chhumserved 1962

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  3rd-Oldest ever:
   France
  served: 1962

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  18th-oldest ever:
   Sudan
  Abdel Halim Muhammad
  served: 1972–1976

List

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Celâl Bayar	Türkiye	Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960)	1883	1986	103 years, 98 days
2	Antoine Pinay	France	President of the Council of Ministers (1952–1953)	1891	1994	102 years, 343 days
3	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905	alive	102 years, 122 days
4	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	Prime Minister (1945)	1887	1990	102 years, 48 days
5	Willem Drees	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1948–1958)	1886	1988	101 years, 314 days
6	Zhang Qun	Taiwan	Premier (1947–1948)	1889	1990	101 years, 219 days
7	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859	1960	101 years, 27 days
8	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904	2004	100 years, 45 days
9	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898	1998	99 years, 195 days
10	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903	2002	99 years, 96 days
11	Clifford Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	1892	1991	99 years, 92 days
12	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	1896	1995	99 years, 41 days
13	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	alive	98 years, 357 days
9–13	Hastings Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)	1898	1997	98 years, 325 days to 99 years, 324 days
15	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873	1972	98 years, 237 days
16	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910	alive	97 years, 234 days
17	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	President (1926–1931)	1879	1978	98 years, 203 days
18	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	1874	1973	98 years, 196 days
19	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908	2007	98 years, 181 days
20	Borys Martos	Ukraine	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919)	1879	1977	98 years, 122 days
21	Artúr Görgei	Hungary	Acting Governor-President (1849)	1818	1916	98 years, 112 days
22	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	1868	1966	98 years, 78 days
23	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875	1973	98 years, 15 days
24	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	alive	97 years, 299 days
25	Wellington Koo	China	Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927)	1888	1985	97 years, 289 days
26	Baron Ignaz von Plener	Cislethania ( Austria-Hungary)	Minister-President (1870)	1810	1908	97 years, 272 days
27	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Irish Free State	Governor-General (1932–1936)	1866	1963	97 years, 267 days
27	Abdel Halim Muhamad	Sudan	President (1975–1980)	1910	alive	97 years, 267 days
28	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	alive	97 years, 266 days
29	He Yingqin	Taiwan	Premier (1949)	1890	1987	97 years, 202 days
30	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	1872	1969	97 years, 152 days
31	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	President (1960–1962)	1910	alive	97 years, 167 days
32	Ion Gheorghe Maurer	/  Romania	President of the Presidium (1958–1961) (Acting) President of the State Council (1965) Prime Minister (1961–1974)	1902	2000	97 years, 138 days
34	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910	Alive	97 years, 28 days
24–35	Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	alive	97 years, 1 day to 98 years, 0 days
36	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	1911	Alive	96 years, 355 days
37	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Vatican City	Acting Sovereign (1939)	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
38	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	Alive	96 years, 291 days
39	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871	1968	96 years, 275 days
40	Federico Páez	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	1877	1974	96 years, 250 days
41	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
42	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941	1890	1986	96 years, 244 days
36–43	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days
44	Alejandro Deustua	&nbsp:Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1849	1945	96 years, 137 days
45	Pedro Lascuráin	Mexico	President (1913)	1856	1952	96 years, 74 days
46	Federico Chaves	Paraguay	President (1949–1954)	1882	1978	96 years, 68 days
47	Fumio Gotō	Japan	Acting Prime Minister (1936)	1884	1980	96 years, 67 days
48	João Lins Cansanção	Brazil	Prime Minister (1878–1880)	1810	1906	96 years, 37 days
49	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	Alive	96 years, 0 days
	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuvan People's Republic	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)
51	Hans Schaffner	Switzerland	President (1966)	1908	2004	95 years, 346 days
52	Joaquín Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)	1906	2002	95 years, 316 days
53	Tomás Romero Pereira	Paraguay	Provisional President (1954)	1886	1982	95 years, 312 days
54	Juan José Estrada	Nicaragua	President (1910–1911)	1872	1967	95 years, 191 days
55	Pote Sarasin	Thailand	Prime Minister (1957)	1905	2000	95 years, 187 days
56	Tahar Ben Ammar	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956)	1889	1985	95 years, 166 days
57	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	Alive	95 years, 147 days
58	Philippe Pétain	France	Prime Prime Minister (1940) Chief of State (1940-1944)	1856	1951	95 years, 90 days
47–59	Hassan al-Hakim	Syria	Prime Minister (1941-1942, 1951)	1886	1982	95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days
60	Léopold Sédar Senghor	Senegal	President (1960 - 1980)	1906	2001	95 years, 72 days
61	Petar Stambolić	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister (1963 - 1967) President (1982-1983)	1912	2007	95 years, 71 days
62	Nguyễn Văn Tâm	South Vietnam	Prime Minister (1952–1954)	1895	1990	95 years, 48 days
63	Max Petitpierre	Switzerland	Federal Council Minister (1944-1961) President (1950, 1955, 1960)	1899	1994	95 years, 27 days
64	Saeb Salam	Lebanon	Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973)	1905	2000	95 years, 4 days
49–65	Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	Alive	95 years, 1 day to 96 years, 0 days
66	Hassan ibn Yahya	Kingdom of Yemen  North Yemen	Prime Minister (1948–1955)	1908	2003	95 years, 0 days
67	Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido	Venezuela	Interim President (1892)	1854	1949	94 years, 362 days
	José Luis Bustamante y Rivero	Peru	President (1945–1948)	1894	1989
67	Fred Degazon	Dominica	President (1979–1980)	1913	alive	94 years, 362 days
70	Juliana	Netherlands	Queen (1948–1980)	1909	2004	94 years, 325 days
71	Emilio Aguinaldo	Philippines	President (1899 – 1901)	1869	1964	94 years, 321 days
72	Constantin Ion Parhon	Romania	President (1948-1952)	1874	1969	94 years, 298 days
73	Maaraouf Dawalibi	Syria	Prime Minister (1951, 1961-1962)	1909	2004	94 years, 292 days
74	Emiliano Chamorro Vargas	Nicaragua	President (1917-1921)	1871	1966	94 years, 291 days
75	Martti Miettunen	Finland	Prime Minister (1961–1962, 1975–1977)	1907	2002	94 years, 277 days
75	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	Alive	94 years, 277 days
77	Sanya Dharmasakti	Thailand	Prime Minister (1973–1975)	1907	2002	94 years, 276 days
78	Emilio Bello Codesido	Chile	President (1925)	1868	1863	94 years, 233 days
79	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913	Alive	94 years, 230 days
80	Pierre Graber	Switzerland	President (1975)	1908	2003	94 years, 225 days
81	Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol	Guatemala	President (1865)	1802	1897	94 years, 207 days
82	Héctor Trujillo	Ecuador	President (1952–1960)	1908	2002	94 years, 196 days
83	Wijeyananda Dahayanake	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister (1959–1960)	1902	1997	94 years, 194 days
84	Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas	Greece	Prime Minister (1965)	1893	1987	94 years, 182 days
85	Charles de Freycinet	France	Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892)	1828	1923	94 years, 181 days
86	Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993)	1913	2007	94 years, 127 days
87	Charles Tupper	Canada	Prime Minister (1896)	1821	1915	94 years, 120 days
88	Garfield Todd	South Rhodesia	Prime Minister (1953 – 1958)	1908	2002	94 years, 92 days
89	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	Alive	94 years, 89 days
90	Phạm Văn Đồng	North Vietnam / State of Vietnam	Prime Minister (1955–1987)	1906	2000	94 years, 59 days
91	Sir Herbert Duffus	Jamaica	Acting Governor-General (1973)	1908	2002	94 years, 56 days
92	Mikhail Solometsev	:Soviet Union'	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1983–1988)	1913	alive	94 years, 55 days
93	C. Rajagopalachari	India	Governor-General (1946–1950)	1878	1972	94 years, 15 days
94	Alfonso López Michelsen	Colombia	President (1972–1976)	1913	2007	94 years, 11 days
95	Carlos Mancheno Cajas	Ecuador	President (1947)	1902	1996	94 years, 2 days
96	Paul Magloire	Haiti	President (1950–1956)	1907	2001	93 years, 358 days
97	Mackenzie Bowell	Canada	Prime Minister (1894–1896)	1823	1917	93 years, 348 days
98	José Bordas Valdez	Dominican Republic	Provisional President (1913-1914)	1874	1968	93 years, 341 days
99	Tiburcio Carias Andino	Dominican Republic	President (1924, 1932-1949)	1876	1969	93 years, 283 days
100	Alfredo Stroessener	–Dominican Republic	President (1954-1989)	1912	2006	93 years, 276 days

Longest-living cardinals

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  Oldest ever:
   Portugal
  Jorge da Costa

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  2nd-Oldest:
   Italy
  Corrado Bafile

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  3rd-Oldest ever:
   Papal States
  Ligi Ciacchi

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  8th-oldest ever:
   Germany
  Paul Agustin Mayer

List

	Cardinal	Country	Born	Died	Age
1	Corrado Bafile	Italy	1903	2005	101 years, 214 days
2	Ignatius Kung Pin-mei	China	1901	2000	98 years, 223 days
	Franz König	Austria	1905	2004
4	Paolo Dezza, S.J.	Italy	1901	1999	98 years, 4 days
5	Alfons Maria Stickler	Austria	1910	2007	97 years, 111 days
6	Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M.	Italy	1896	1993	96 years, 363 days
7	Johannes Willebrands	Netherlands	1909	2008	96 years, 331 days
8	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
9	José da Costa Nunes	Portugal	1880	1976	96 years, 259 days
10	Paul Augustin Mayer	Germany	1915	alive	96 years, 223 days
11	Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J.	Zambia (born in  Poland)	1911	2007	96 years, 180 days
12	Mikel Koliqi	Albania	1902	1997	94 years, 121 days
13	Francesco Morano	Italy	1872	1968	96 years, 34 days
14	Pietro Parente	Italy	1891	1986	95 years, 316 days
15	Henri de Lubac S.J.	France	1896	1991	95 years, 196 days
16	Alberto Di Jorio	Italy	1884	1979	95 years, 49 days
17	Corrado Ursi	Italy	1908	2003	95 years, 34 days
18	Julijans Vaivods	Latvia	1895	1990	94 years, 279 days
19	Carlos María de la Torre	Ecuador	1873	1968	94 years, 259 days
20	Louis-Albert Vachon	Canada	1912	2006	94 years, 237 days
21	Egano Righi-Lambertini	Italy	1906	2000	94 years, 225 days
22	Giuseppe Sensi	Italy	1907	2001	94 years, 60 days
23	John Carberry	United States	1904	1998	93 years, 321 days
24	Paolo Bertoli	Italy	1908	2001	93 years, 280 days
25	Opilio Rossi	United States	1910	2004	93 years, 271 days
26	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	1836	1930	93 years, 216 days
27	Teodolfo Mertel	Papal States	1806	1899	93 years, 152 days
28	Kazimierz Świątek	Belarus	1914	alive	93 years, 72 days
29	František Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	1899	1992	93 years, 35 days
30	Alfredo Scherer	Brazil	1903	1996	93 years, 33 days
31	James Francis McIntyre	United States	1886	1979	93 years, 21 days
32	Giuseppe Pizzardo	Italy	1877	1970	93 years, 19 days
33	Antonio Innocenti	Italy	1915	2008	93 years, 14 days
34	Carlo Confalonieri	Italy	1893	1986	93 years, 7 days
35	Alessandro Verde	Italy	1865	1958	93 years, 2 days
36	Juan Carlos Aramburu	Argentina	1912	2004	92 years, 281 days
37	Paolo Giobbe	Italy	1880	1972	92 years, 217 days
38	Josyf Slipyj	Ukraine	1892	1984	92 years, 203 days
	Léon-Étienne Duval	;Algeria	1903	1996
40	Joseph Asajirō Satowaki	Japan	1904	1996	92 years, 189 days
41	Ersilio Tonini	Italy	1914'	alive	92 years, 165 days
42	José María Caro Rodríguez	Chile	1866	1958	92 years, 164 days
43	Maurice Feltin	France	1883	1975	92 years, 135 days
44	Giuseppe Casoria	Italy	1908	2001	92 years, 130 days
45	Augusto da Silva	Brazil	1876	1958	92 years, 128 days
46	Gabriel-Marie Garrone	France	1901	1994	92 years, 95 days
47	Carlos Carmelo Vascocellos Motta	Brazil	1890	1982	92 years, 62 days
48	Jean Margéot	Mauritius	1916	alive	91 years, 332 days
49	Josef Frings	Germany	1887	1978	91 years, 314 days
50	Leo Jozef Suenens	Belgium	1904	1996	91 years, 295 days
51	Enrique Pla y Deniel	Spain	1876	1968	91 years, 199 days
52	Raúl Silva Henríquez	Chile	1907	1999	91 years, 194 days
53	Fiorenzo Angelini	Italy	1916	alive	91 years, 153 days
54	Pietro Pavan	Italy	1903	1994	91 years, 118 days
55	François-Marie de Rovérié de Cabrières	France	1830	1921	91 years, 113 days
56	Benedetto Aloisi Masella	Italy	1879	1970	91 years, 93 days
57	Yves Congar, O.P.	France	1904	1995	91 years, 70 days
58	Gerald Emmett Carter	Canada	1912	2003	91 years, 28 days
59	Patrick Aloysius O’Boyle	United States	1896	1987	91 years, 23 days
60	Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.J.	Ecuador	1903	1994	91 years, 11 days
61	Giuseppe Caprio	Italy	1914	2005	90 years, 334 days
62	Luigi Di Canossa	Italy	1809	1900	90 years, 326 days
63	Amleto Giovanni Cicognani	Italy	1883	1973	90 years, 296 days
64	Anton Josef Gruscha	Austria	1820	1911	90 years, 275 days
65	Antonio Caggiano	Brazil	1889	1979	90 years, 266 days
66	Giovanni Mercati	Italy	1865	1957	90 years, 249 days
67	Silvio Oddi	Italy	1910	2001	90 years, 227 days
68	Aurelio Sabattani	Italy	1912	2003	90 years, 183 days
69	José Clemente Maurer, C.Ss.R.	Bolivia	1900	1990	90 years, 106 days
70	Michelangelo Celesia, O.S.B. Cas.	Italy	1814	1904	90 years, 92 days
70	Cahal Daly	United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland)	1917	alive	90 years, 92 days
72	Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez	Mexico	1895	1986	90 years, 86 days
73	Juan Francisco Fresno	Chile	1914	2004	90 years, 80 days
75	Luigi Poggi	Italy	1917	alive	90 years, 37 days
75	Alexandru Todea	Romania	1912	2002	89 years, 351 days
76	Paul Gouyon	France	1910	2000	89 years, 338 days
77	Ángel Suquía Goicoechea	Spain	1916	2006	89 years, 284 days
78	François Marty	France	1904	1994	89 years, 274 days
79	Paolo Marella	Italy	1895	1984	89 years, 264 days
80	Elia Dalla Costa	Italy	1872	1959	89 years, 222 days
	Édouard Gagnon P.S.S.	Canada	1918	2007
82	Maximos IV Sayegh	Syria	1878	1967	89 years, 209 days
83	William Theodore Heard	United Kingdom ( Scotland)	1884	1973	89 years, 204 days
84	John Henry Newman C.O.	United Kingdom ( England)	1801	1890	89 years, 171 days
85	Giovanni Colombo	Italy	1903	1992	89 years, 166 days
86	Fernando Cento	Italy	1883	1973	89 years, 156 days
87	Avery Dulles S.J.	United States'	1918	alive	89 years, 130 days
88	Giovanni Canestri	Italy	1918	alive	89 years, 93 days
89	Giovanni Cheli	&nbspItaly	1918	alive	89 years, 89 days
90	Achille Liénart	France	1884	1973	89 years, 8 days
91	Alfredo Ottaviani	Italy	1890	1979	88 years, 339 days
92	François-Marie-Benjamin Richard	France	1819	1908	88 years, 333 days
93	Maurilio Fossati O.Ss.G.C.N.	France	1876	1965	88 years, 310 days
94	Alfonso Capecelatro CO	Italy	1824	1912	88 years, 283 days
95	Alois Grillmeier	Germany	1910	1998	88 years, 255 days
96	Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira	Portugal	1888	1977	88 years, 246 days
97	Paul-Joseph Phạm Ðình Tụng	Vietnam	1919	alive	88 years, 200 days
98	Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada	Mexico	1919	alive	88 years, 186 days
99	Carlo Grano	Italy	1887	1978	88 years, 171 days
100	Franz Ehrle S.J.	Austria	1845	1934	88 years, 165 days

See Also

• List of longest-living cardinals
• List of longest-living state leaders