List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals

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)
1	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada	104 years, 248 days
2	Antônio Afonso de Miranda	April 14, 1920	November 1, 1945	December 27, 1971	Brazil	104 years, 222 days
3	John Bai Ningxian	January 20, 1921	June 20, 1951	May 7, 1997	China	103 years, 307 days
4	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico	103 years, 295 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, 326 days
7	Stephen Yang Xiangtai	November 17, 1922	August 27, 1949	November 30, 1996	China	102 years, 5 days
8	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy	101 years, 200 days
9	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States	101 years, 166 days
10	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain	101 years, 77 days
11	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy	101 years, 55 days
12	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy	100 years, 362 days
13	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy	100 years, 359 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, 301 days
16	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada	100 years, 272 days
17	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia	100 years, 256 days
18	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos	March 18, 1924	June 25, 1953	March 9, 1975	Mozambique	100 years, 249 days
19	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan	100 years, 236 days
20	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy	100 years, 196 days
21	Daniel Verstraete	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa	100 years, 114 days
22	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	October 3, 1924	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	Brazil	100 years, 50 days
23	Albert Houssiau	November 2, 1924	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	Belgium	100 years, 20 days
24	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	November 7, 1924	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	Spain	100 years, 15 days
25	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	November 8, 1924	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	South Korea	100 years, 14 days
26	John Aloysius O'Mara	November 17, 1924	June 1, 1951	June 29, 1976	United States	100 years, 5 days
27	Gaetano Bonicelli	December 13, 1924	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	Italy	99 years, 345 days
28	Alexandre do Nascimento	March 1, 1925	December 20, 1952	August 31, 1975	Angola	99 years, 266 days
29	João Evangelista Martins Terra	March 7, 1925	December 22, 1956	November 20, 1988	Brazil	99 years, 260 days
30	James Hector MacDonald	April 28, 1925	June 29, 1953	April 17, 1978	Canada	99 years, 208 days
31	Ignatius Paul Pinto	May 18, 1925	August 24, 1952	January 31, 1989	India	99 years, 188 days
32	Ernest Bertrand Boland	July 10, 1925	June 9, 1955	July 25, 1966	United States	99 years, 135 days
33	Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand	July 11, 1925	October 10, 1948	September 14, 1975	France	99 years, 134 days
34	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	July 14, 1925	June 11, 1950	June 3, 1973	Spain	99 years, 131 days
35	Joseph Gabriel Fernandez	September 16, 1925	March 19, 1949	May 14, 1978	India	99 years, 67 days
36	Angelo Acerbi	September 23, 1925	March 27, 1948	June 30, 1974	Italy	99 years, 60 days
37	Joseph Hitti	September 30, 1925	March 24, 1951	January 6, 1991	Lebanon	99 years, 53 days
38	José Freire Falcão	October 23, 1925	June 19, 1949	June 28, 1988	Brazil	99 years, 30 days
39	Didier-Léon Marchand	November 1, 1925	May 19, 1951	November 5, 1978	France	99 years, 21 days
40	Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	November 21, 1925	March 29, 1952	October 5, 1975	France	99 years, 1 day
41	Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes	December 9, 1925	December 17, 1949	December 17, 1977	Guatemala	98 years, 349 days
42	John R. Gorman	December 11, 1925	May 1, 1956	April 11, 1988	United States	98 years, 347 days
43	John Huo Cheng	February 1, 1926	May 14, 1954	September 4, 1991	China	98 years, 295 days
44	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	February 7, 1926	December 8, 1954	August 15, 1977	Argentina	98 years, 289 days
45	Luigi De Magistris	February 23, 1926	April 12, 1952	April 28, 1996	Italy	98 years, 273 days
46	Gabino Díaz Merchán	February 26, 1926	July 13, 1952	August 22, 1965	Spain	98 years, 270 days
47	Maurice Taylor	May 5, 1926	July 2, 1950	June 9, 1981	United Kingdom	98 years, 201 days
48	Walter Ivan de Azevedo	May 8, 1926	December 8, 1953	July 27, 1986	Brazil	98 years, 198 days
49	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	June 16, 1926	December 2, 1951	May 24, 1981	Brazil	98 years, 159 days
50	Jānis Cakuls	July 4, 1926	September 18, 1949	December 11, 1982	Latvia	98 years, 141 days
51	Emanuele Catarinicchia	July 12, 1926	April 2, 1949	December 17, 1978	Italy	98 years, 133 days
52	James Chan Soon Cheong	July 26, 1926	August 6, 1959	June 8, 1973	Malaysia	98 years, 119 days
53	Heitor de Araújo Sales	July 29, 1926	December 3, 1950	June 16, 1978	Brazil	98 years, 116 days
54	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	August 11, 1926	December 6, 1950	August 28, 1966	Brazil	98 years, 103 days
55	Agostino Cacciavillan	August 14, 1926	June 26, 1949	February 21, 1976	Italy	98 years, 100 days
56	Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	August 24, 1926	June 29, 1951	April 29, 1973	Ecuador	98 years, 90 days
57	Lawrence Donald Soens	August 26, 1926	May 6, 1950	August 17, 1983	United States	98 years, 88 days
58	Juozas Žemaitis	August 30, 1926	September 25, 1949	March 18, 1989	Lithuania	98 years, 84 days
59	Gilbert Sheldon	September 20, 1926	February 28, 1953	June 11, 1976	United States	98 years, 63 days
60	Ernesto Togni	October 6, 1926	May 7, 1950	September 17, 1978	Switzerland	98 years, 47 days
61	Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi	November 21, 1926	December 17, 1950	December 10, 1982	Italy	98 years, 1 day
62	Emmanuel Wamala	December 15, 1926	December 21, 1957	November 22, 1981	Uganda	97 years, 343 days
63	Michael Pak Jeong-il	December 18, 1926	November 23, 1958	May 31, 1977	South Korea	97 years, 340 days
64	Jorge Medina	December 23, 1926	June 12, 1954	January 6, 1985	Chile	97 years, 335 days
65	Paolo Magnani	December 31, 1926	June 29, 1951	September 10, 1977	Italy	97 years, 327 days
66	Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên	January 7, 1927	May 14, 1960	November 19, 1992	Vietnam	97 years, 320 days
67	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	January 25, 1927	August 22, 1953	January 6, 1984	South Korea	97 years, 302 days
68	Julian Wojtkowski	January 31, 1927	June 25, 1950	August 22, 1969	Poland	97 years, 296 days
69 / 70	Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno	February 14, 1927	June 29, 1953	March 3, 1990	Ecuador	97 years, 282 days
69 / 70	Gilberto Pereira Lopes	February 14, 1927	December 14, 1949	December 18, 1969	Brazil	97 years, 282 days
71	Senan Louis O’Donnell	February 24, 1927	July 17, 1955	November 28, 1993	Ireland	97 years, 272 days
72	Dominic Anthony Marconi	March 13, 1927	May 30, 1953	June 25, 1976	United States	97 years, 254 days
73	Rembert George Weakland	April 2, 1927	June 24, 1951	September 20, 1977	United States	97 years, 234 days
74	Joseph Pallikaparampil	April 10, 1927	November 23, 1958	August 15, 1973	India	97 years, 226 days
75	Joseph Ratzinger	April 16, 1927	June 29, 1951	May 28, 1977	Germany	97 years, 220 days
76	José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui	May 20, 1927	November 20, 1949	October 25, 1977	Colombia	97 years, 186 days
77	Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral	May 25, 1927	December 8, 1954	April 20, 1975	Brazil	97 years, 181 days
78	Raul Nicolau Gonçalves	June 15, 1927	December 21, 1950	March 5, 1967	India	97 years, 160 days
79	Joseph Martin Sartoris	July 1, 1927	May 30, 1953	March 19, 1994	United States	97 years, 144 days
80	Howard George Tripp	July 3, 1927	May 31, 1953	January 30, 1980	United Kingdom	97 years, 142 days
81	James Timlin	August 5, 1927	July 16, 1951	September 21, 1976	United States	97 years, 109 days
82	Alberto Tricarico	August 10, 1927	January 6, 1950	April 27, 1987	Italy	97 years, 104 days
83	Kazimierz Romaniuk	August 21, 1927	December 16, 1951	March 4, 1982	Poland	97 years, 93 days
84	Edoardo Rovida	August 26, 1927	June 29, 1950	October 10, 1971	Italy	97 years, 88 days
85	Abraham Than	September 21, 1927	September 22, 1957	May 11, 1969	Myanmar	97 years, 62 days
86	Abraham Nehmé	October 8, 1927	January 3, 1954	October 26, 1986	Syria	97 years, 45 days
87	Raymond E. Goedert	October 15, 1927	May 1, 1952	August 29, 1991	United States	97 years, 38 days
88	Júlio Duarte Langa	October 27, 1927	June 9, 1957	October 24, 1976	Mozambique	97 years, 26 days
89	Pierre Trân Thanh Chung	November 10, 1927	May 25, 1955	November 22, 1981	Vietnam	97 years, 12 days
90	Daniel A. Cronin	November 14, 1927	December 20, 1952	September 12, 1968	United States	97 years, 8 days
91	Raymond Razakarinvony	November 19, 1927	July 27, 1956	May 17, 1998	Madagascar	97 years, 3 days
92	Angelo Sodano	November 23, 1927	September 23, 1950	January 15, 1978	Italy	96 years, 365 days
93	Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer	December 4, 1927	August 6, 1955	April 27, 1983	Germany	96 years, 354 days
94	Vincenzo Rimedio	December 5, 1927	July 22, 1951	October 28, 1982	Italy	96 years, 353 days
95	Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz	December 28, 1927	June 29, 1950	January 5, 1989	Peru	96 years, 330 days
96	Giovanni Zerbini	December 29, 1927	June 29, 1956	February 19, 1995	Italy	96 years, 329 days
97	Friedrich Wetter	February 20, 1928	October 10, 1953	June 29, 1968	Germany	96 years, 276 days
98	Robert Joseph Banks	February 26, 1928	December 20, 1952	September 19, 1985	United States	96 years, 270 days
99	Klaus Dick	February 27, 1928	February 24, 1953	May 19, 1975	Germany	96 years, 269 days
100	John Stephen Cummins	March 3, 1928	January 24, 1953	May 16, 1974	United States	96 years, 264 days

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↑ 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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[1] 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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List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals

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