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 red those who are Cardinals, in yellow the Pope emeritus). The current breakdown of the 100 persons are the Pope Emeritus, 13 cardinals and 86 bishops.[lower-alpha 1]
Rank | Bishop or Cardinal | Date of birth | Ordained Priest | Consecrated Bishop | Country of origin | Age (years, days) |
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1 | Laurent Noël | March 19, 1920 | June 16, 1944 | August 29, 1963 | Canada | 104 years, 65 days |
2 | Antônio Afonso de Miranda | April 14, 1920 | November 1, 1945 | December 27, 1971 | Brazil | 104 years, 39 days |
3 | John Bai Ningxian | January 20, 1921 | June 20, 1951 | May 7, 1997 | China | 103 years, 124 days |
4 | Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla | February 1, 1921 | August 3, 1949 | May 4, 1971 | Mexico | 103 years, 112 days |
5 | Joseph Hou Guoyang | 1922 | 1951 | October 8, 1989 | China | 99–98 years |
6 | José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | January 1, 1922 | May 28, 1946 | September 8, 1961 | Mexico | 102 years, 143 days |
7 | Stephen Yang Xiangtai | November 17, 1922 | August 27, 1949 | November 30, 1996 | China | 101 years, 188 days |
8 | Bruno Foresti | May 6, 1923 | April 7, 1946 | January 12, 1975 | Italy | 101 years, 17 days |
9 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | May 23, 1959 | January 25, 1972 | United States | 100 years, 349 days |
10 | Eloy Tato Losada | September 6, 1923 | June 15, 1946 | July 25, 1960 | Spain | 100 years, 260 days |
11 | Giuseppe Casale | September 28, 1923 | February 3, 1946 | December 8, 1974 | Italy | 100 years, 238 days |
12 | Luigi Bettazzi | November 26, 1923 | August 4, 1946 | October 4, 1963 | Italy | 100 years, 179 days |
13 | Augusto Lauro | November 29, 1923 | June 29, 1947 | October 28, 1975 | Italy | 100 years, 176 days |
14 | Thomas Zhao Duomo | 1924 | 1951 | February 17, 2004 | China | 97–96 years |
15 | Stanisław Szymecki | January 26, 1924 | July 3, 1947 | April 12, 1981 | Poland | 100 years, 118 days |
16 | Remi De Roo | February 24, 1924 | June 8, 1950 | December 14, 1962 | Canada | 100 years, 89 days |
17 | Jozef Tomko | March 11, 1924 | March 12, 1949 | September 15, 1979 | Slovakia | 100 years, 73 days |
18 | Alexandre José Maria dos Santos | March 18, 1924 | June 25, 1953 | March 9, 1975 | Mozambique | 100 years, 66 days |
19 | Peter Takaaki Hirayama | March 31, 1924 | March 19, 1957 | January 25, 1970 | Japan | 100 years, 53 days |
20 | Settimio Todisco | May 10, 1924 | July 27, 1947 | February 15, 1970 | Italy | 100 years, 13 days |
21 | Daniel Verstraete | July 31, 1924 | February 19, 1950 | May 14, 1978 | South Africa | 99 years, 297 days |
22 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | December 5, 1948 | November 6, 1966 | Brazil | 99 years, 233 days |
23 | Albert Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | February 6, 1949 | May 18, 1986 | Belgium | 99 years, 203 days |
24 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | April 1, 1951 | February 2, 1983 | Spain | 99 years, 198 days |
25 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | March 20, 1950 | October 20, 1963 | South Korea | 99 years, 197 days |
26 | John Aloysius O'Mara | November 17, 1924 | June 1, 1951 | June 29, 1976 | United States | 99 years, 188 days |
27 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | May 22, 1948 | August 26, 1975 | Italy | 99 years, 162 days |
28 | Alexandre do Nascimento | March 1, 1925 | December 20, 1952 | August 31, 1975 | Angola | 99 years, 83 days |
29 | João Evangelista Martins Terra | March 7, 1925 | December 22, 1956 | November 20, 1988 | Brazil | 99 years, 77 days |
30 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | June 29, 1953 | April 17, 1978 | Canada | 99 years, 25 days |
31 | Ignatius Paul Pinto | May 18, 1925 | August 24, 1952 | January 31, 1989 | India | 99 years, 5 days |
32 | Ernest Bertrand Boland | July 10, 1925 | June 9, 1955 | July 25, 1966 | United States | 98 years, 318 days |
33 | Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand | July 11, 1925 | October 10, 1948 | September 14, 1975 | France | 98 years, 317 days |
34 | Francisco Álvarez Martínez | July 14, 1925 | June 11, 1950 | June 3, 1973 | Spain | 98 years, 314 days |
35 | Joseph Gabriel Fernandez | September 16, 1925 | March 19, 1949 | May 14, 1978 | India | 98 years, 250 days |
36 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | March 27, 1948 | June 30, 1974 | Italy | 98 years, 243 days |
37 | Joseph Hitti | September 30, 1925 | March 24, 1951 | January 6, 1991 | Lebanon | 98 years, 236 days |
38 | José Freire Falcão | October 23, 1925 | June 19, 1949 | June 28, 1988 | Brazil | 98 years, 213 days |
39 | Didier-Léon Marchand | November 1, 1925 | May 19, 1951 | November 5, 1978 | France | 98 years, 204 days |
40 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | March 29, 1952 | October 5, 1975 | France | 98 years, 184 days |
41 | Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes | December 9, 1925 | December 17, 1949 | December 17, 1977 | Guatemala | 98 years, 166 days |
42 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | May 1, 1956 | April 11, 1988 | United States | 98 years, 164 days |
43 | John Huo Cheng | February 1, 1926 | May 14, 1954 | September 4, 1991 | China | 98 years, 112 days |
44 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | February 7, 1926 | December 8, 1954 | August 15, 1977 | Argentina | 98 years, 106 days |
45 | Luigi De Magistris | February 23, 1926 | April 12, 1952 | April 28, 1996 | Italy | 98 years, 90 days |
46 | Gabino Díaz Merchán | February 26, 1926 | July 13, 1952 | August 22, 1965 | Spain | 98 years, 87 days |
47 | Maurice Taylor | May 5, 1926 | July 2, 1950 | June 9, 1981 | United Kingdom | 98 years, 18 days |
48 | Walter Ivan de Azevedo | May 8, 1926 | December 8, 1953 | July 27, 1986 | Brazil | 98 years, 15 days |
49 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | December 2, 1951 | May 24, 1981 | Brazil | 97 years, 342 days |
50 | Jānis Cakuls | July 4, 1926 | September 18, 1949 | December 11, 1982 | Latvia | 97 years, 324 days |
51 | Emanuele Catarinicchia | July 12, 1926 | April 2, 1949 | December 17, 1978 | Italy | 97 years, 316 days |
52 | James Chan Soon Cheong | July 26, 1926 | August 6, 1959 | June 8, 1973 | Malaysia | 97 years, 302 days |
53 | Heitor de Araújo Sales | July 29, 1926 | December 3, 1950 | June 16, 1978 | Brazil | 97 years, 299 days |
54 | Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | August 11, 1926 | December 6, 1950 | August 28, 1966 | Brazil | 97 years, 286 days |
55 | Agostino Cacciavillan | August 14, 1926 | June 26, 1949 | February 21, 1976 | Italy | 97 years, 283 days |
56 | Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | August 24, 1926 | June 29, 1951 | April 29, 1973 | Ecuador | 97 years, 273 days |
57 | Lawrence Donald Soens | August 26, 1926 | May 6, 1950 | August 17, 1983 | United States | 97 years, 271 days |
58 | Juozas Žemaitis | August 30, 1926 | September 25, 1949 | March 18, 1989 | Lithuania | 97 years, 267 days |
59 | Gilbert Sheldon | September 20, 1926 | February 28, 1953 | June 11, 1976 | United States | 97 years, 246 days |
60 | Ernesto Togni | October 6, 1926 | May 7, 1950 | September 17, 1978 | Switzerland | 97 years, 230 days |
61 | Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi | November 21, 1926 | December 17, 1950 | December 10, 1982 | Italy | 97 years, 184 days |
62 | Emmanuel Wamala | December 15, 1926 | December 21, 1957 | November 22, 1981 | Uganda | 97 years, 160 days |
63 | Michael Pak Jeong-il | December 18, 1926 | November 23, 1958 | May 31, 1977 | South Korea | 97 years, 157 days |
64 | Jorge Medina | December 23, 1926 | June 12, 1954 | January 6, 1985 | Chile | 97 years, 152 days |
65 | Paolo Magnani | December 31, 1926 | June 29, 1951 | September 10, 1977 | Italy | 97 years, 144 days |
66 | Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên | January 7, 1927 | May 14, 1960 | November 19, 1992 | Vietnam | 97 years, 137 days |
67 | Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | January 25, 1927 | August 22, 1953 | January 6, 1984 | South Korea | 97 years, 119 days |
68 | Julian Wojtkowski | January 31, 1927 | June 25, 1950 | August 22, 1969 | Poland | 97 years, 113 days |
69 / 70 | Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno | February 14, 1927 | June 29, 1953 | March 3, 1990 | Ecuador | 97 years, 99 days |
Gilberto Pereira Lopes | February 14, 1927 | December 14, 1949 | December 18, 1969 | Brazil | 97 years, 99 days | |
71 | Senan Louis O’Donnell | February 24, 1927 | July 17, 1955 | November 28, 1993 | Ireland | 97 years, 89 days |
72 | Dominic Anthony Marconi | March 13, 1927 | May 30, 1953 | June 25, 1976 | United States | 97 years, 71 days |
73 | Rembert George Weakland | April 2, 1927 | June 24, 1951 | September 20, 1977 | United States | 97 years, 51 days |
74 | Joseph Pallikaparampil | April 10, 1927 | November 23, 1958 | August 15, 1973 | India | 97 years, 43 days |
75 | Joseph Ratzinger | April 16, 1927 | June 29, 1951 | May 28, 1977 | Germany | 97 years, 37 days |
76 | José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui | May 20, 1927 | November 20, 1949 | October 25, 1977 | Colombia | 97 years, 3 days |
77 | Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral | May 25, 1927 | December 8, 1954 | April 20, 1975 | Brazil | 96 years, 364 days |
78 | Raul Nicolau Gonçalves | June 15, 1927 | December 21, 1950 | March 5, 1967 | India | 96 years, 343 days |
79 | Joseph Martin Sartoris | July 1, 1927 | May 30, 1953 | March 19, 1994 | United States | 96 years, 327 days |
80 | Howard George Tripp | July 3, 1927 | May 31, 1953 | January 30, 1980 | United Kingdom | 96 years, 325 days |
81 | James Timlin | August 5, 1927 | July 16, 1951 | September 21, 1976 | United States | 96 years, 292 days |
82 | Alberto Tricarico | August 10, 1927 | January 6, 1950 | April 27, 1987 | Italy | 96 years, 287 days |
83 | Kazimierz Romaniuk | August 21, 1927 | December 16, 1951 | March 4, 1982 | Poland | 96 years, 276 days |
84 | Edoardo Rovida | August 26, 1927 | June 29, 1950 | October 10, 1971 | Italy | 96 years, 271 days |
85 | Abraham Than | September 21, 1927 | September 22, 1957 | May 11, 1969 | Myanmar | 96 years, 245 days |
86 | Abraham Nehmé | October 8, 1927 | January 3, 1954 | October 26, 1986 | Syria | 96 years, 228 days |
87 | Raymond E. Goedert | October 15, 1927 | May 1, 1952 | August 29, 1991 | United States | 96 years, 221 days |
88 | Júlio Duarte Langa | October 27, 1927 | June 9, 1957 | October 24, 1976 | Mozambique | 96 years, 209 days |
89 | Pierre Trân Thanh Chung | November 10, 1927 | May 25, 1955 | November 22, 1981 | Vietnam | 96 years, 195 days |
90 | Daniel A. Cronin | November 14, 1927 | December 20, 1952 | September 12, 1968 | United States | 96 years, 191 days |
91 | Raymond Razakarinvony | November 19, 1927 | July 27, 1956 | May 17, 1998 | Madagascar | 96 years, 186 days |
92 | Angelo Sodano | November 23, 1927 | September 23, 1950 | January 15, 1978 | Italy | 96 years, 182 days |
93 | Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer | December 4, 1927 | August 6, 1955 | April 27, 1983 | Germany | 96 years, 171 days |
94 | Vincenzo Rimedio | December 5, 1927 | July 22, 1951 | October 28, 1982 | Italy | 96 years, 170 days |
95 | Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz | December 28, 1927 | June 29, 1950 | January 5, 1989 | Peru | 96 years, 147 days |
96 | Giovanni Zerbini | December 29, 1927 | June 29, 1956 | February 19, 1995 | Italy | 96 years, 146 days |
97 | Friedrich Wetter | February 20, 1928 | October 10, 1953 | June 29, 1968 | Germany | 96 years, 93 days |
98 | Robert Joseph Banks | February 26, 1928 | December 20, 1952 | September 19, 1985 | United States | 96 years, 87 days |
99 | Klaus Dick | February 27, 1928 | February 24, 1953 | May 19, 1975 | Germany | 96 years, 86 days |
100 | John Stephen Cummins | March 3, 1928 | January 24, 1953 | May 16, 1974 | United States | 96 years, 81 days |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ In this list not included Mgr Phocas Nikwigize, Bishop Emeritus of Ruhengeri. Mgr Nikwigize was born in 1919. He was kidnapped with others near Goma on 27 November 1996 by members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. None of the people who were kidnapped around this time were not found alive. It would have been assassinated on November 30, 1996, but the Holy See did not declare him dead because his body has not been found and there has been no eyewitness testimony to his death. However, his death has been reported on several occasions. It is inconceivable that he is still alive but that he has not been seen since November 1996.
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