List of youngest living Catholic bishops

This is a list of the youngest living Catholic bishops. The current breakdown of the 100 persons.

The coat of arms of the youngest Catholic bishop, Cristian Dumitru Crişan

Regarding the age of a bishop is required to be "at least thirty-five years old" in the current Code of Canon Law (Canon 378 § 1, 3). The same age is prescribed for bishops in the Eastern Catholic Churches according to the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (Canon 180, 4).

List of prelates

Rank	Bishop	Date of birth	Ordained Priest	Consecrated Bishop	Church sui iuris	Country of origin	Age (years, days)
1	Cristian Dumitru Crişan	October 11, 1981	May 11, 2008	June 21, 2020	Romanian Catholic	Romania	42 years, 285 days
2	Stepan Sus	October 7, 1981	June 30, 2006	January 12, 2020	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	42 years, 289 days
3	Yaacoub Ephrem Semaan	May 2, 1980	June 24, 2006	August 15, 2020	Syriac Catholic	Lebanon/Palestine	44 years, 81 days
4	Mykola Bychok	February 13, 1980	May 3, 2005	June 7, 2020	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine/Australia	44 years, 160 days
5	Rami Flaviano Al-Kabalan	July 17, 1979	July 16, 2005	September 13, 2020	Syriac Catholic	Syria	45 years, 5 days
6	Petro Loza	June 3, 1979	August 26, 2007	July 12, 2018	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	45 years, 49 days
7	Ivan Kulyk	March 16, 1979	May 8, 2005	December 1, 2019	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	45 years, 128 days
8	Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy	March 2, 1979	June 26, 2004	November 9, 2019	Latin Church	Ukraine	45 years, 142 days
9	Milan Stipić	December 28, 1978	October 18, 2003	October 17, 2020	Croatian Catholic	Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia	45 years, 207 days
10	Eduard Kava	April 17, 1978	June 1, 2003	June 21, 2017	Latin Church	Ukraine	46 years, 96 days
11	Pavlo Honcharuk	January 16, 1978	June 22, 2002	February 14, 2020	Latin Church	Ukraine	46 years, 188 days
12	Arjan Dodaj	January 21, 1977	May 11, 2003	September 15, 2020	Latin Church	Albania	47 years, 183 days
13	Yosafat Moschych	September 19, 1976	September 26, 1999	August 3, 2014	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	47 years, 307 days
14	Volodymyr Hrutsa	August 19, 1976	July 12, 2001	April 7, 2016	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	47 years, 338 days
15	Hryhoriy Komar	June 19, 1976	April 22, 2001	August 22, 2014	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	48 years, 33 days
16	Antony Prince Panengaden	May 13, 1976	April 25, 2007	October 29, 2015	Syro-Malabar Catholic	India	48 years, 70 days
17	Gjergj Meta	April 30, 1976	April 21, 2001	September 2, 2017	Latin Church	Albania	48 years, 83 days
18	Andriy Rabiy	October 1, 1975	December 19, 2001	September 3, 2017	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine/USA	48 years, 295 days
19	Yevgeniy Zinkovskiy	July 27, 1975	August 1, 1999	September 12, 2021	Latin Church	Kazakhstan	48 years, 361 days
20	Francisco Agamenilton Damascena	June 26, 1975	March 19, 2001	December 6, 2020	Latin Church	Brazil	49 years, 26 days
21	Steven Joseph Lopes	April 22, 1975	June 23, 2001	February 2, 2016	Latin Church	USA	49 years, 91 days
22	Francisco Figueroa Cervantes	April 11, 1975	June 21, 2003	August 28, 2021	Latin Church	Mexico	49 years, 102 days
23	Nicolas Lhernould	March 23, 1975	May 22, 2004	February 8, 2020	Latin Church	France/Algeria	49 years, 121 days
24	Felix Dawood Al Shabi	January 19, 1975	June 29, 1998	August 30, 2020	Chaldean Catholic	Iraq	49 years, 185 days
25	Stephen Xu Hongwei	January 16, 1975	July 11, 2002	August 28, 2019	Latin Church	China	49 years, 188 days
26	Firas Dardar	January 3, 1975	April 30, 2009	October 30, 2020	Syriac Catholic	Iraq	49 years, 201 days
27	Adam Piotr Bab	December 30, 1974	May 22, 1999	June 29, 2020	Latin Church	Poland	49 years, 205 days
28	Benoni Ambăruş	September 22, 1974	June 29, 2000	May 2, 2021	Latin Church	Romania/Italy	49 years, 304 days
29	Edinson Edgardo Farfán Córdova	September 21, 1974	July 26, 2008	January 4, 2020	Latin Church	Peru	49 years, 305 days
30	Aliaksandr Yasheuski	August 6, 1974	June 24, 2000	June 27, 2015	Latin Church	Belarus	49 years, 351 days
31	Farly Yovany Gil Betancur	June 29, 1974	November 21, 2000	June 18, 2020	Latin Church	Colombia	50 years, 23 days
32	Giorgio Marengo	June 7, 1974	June 24, 2000	August 8, 2020	Latin Church	Italy/Mongolia	50 years, 45 days
33	Giovani Edgar Arana	May 23, 1974	December 8, 2004	July 25, 2018	Latin Church	Bolivia	50 years, 60 days
34	Visvaldas Kulbokas	May 14, 1974	July 19, 1998	August 14, 2021	Latin Church	Lithuania	50 years, 69 days
35	Erik Varden	May 13, 1974	July 16, 2011	October 3, 2020	Latin Church	Norway	50 years, 70 days
36	Jesús Vidal Chamorro	May 6, 1974	May 8, 2004	February 17, 2018	Latin Church	Spain	50 years, 77 days
37	Hani Bakhoum Kiroulos	May 4, 1974	December 29, 2004	August 31, 2019	Coptic Catholic	Egypt	50 years, 79 days
38	Mykola Luchok	March 26, 1974	June 24, 2003	December 10, 2019	Latin Church	Ukraine	50 years, 118 days
39	François Abeli Muhoya Mutchapa	February 9, 1974	January 6, 2002	February 6, 2021	Latin Church	DR Congo	50 years, 164 days
40	Teodor Martynyuk	February 1, 1974	January 20, 2000	May 22, 2015	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	50 years, 172 days
41	Marek Forgáč	January 21, 1974	June 19, 1999	September 1, 2016	Latin Church	Slovakia	50 years, 180 days
42	Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar	December 12, 1973	July 8, 2001	March 31, 2019	Latin Church	Portugal	50 years, 223 days
43	Moises Cuevas	November 25, 1973	December 6, 2000	August 24, 2020	Latin Church	Philippines	50 years, 240 days
44	Paul Daisuke Narui	November 24, 1973	March 10, 2001	September 22, 2020	Latin Church	Japan	50 years, 241 days
45	Milan Lach	November 18, 1973	July 1, 2001	June 1, 2013	Ruthenian Catholic	Slovakia/USA	50 years, 247 days
46	Juan Alberto Ayala Ramírez	November 15, 1973	November 1, 2002	December 12, 2020	Latin Church	Venezuela	50 years, 250 days
47	Robert Jarjis	October 23, 1973	April 27, 2008	January 18, 2019	Chaldean Catholic	Iraq/Canada	50 years, 273 days
48	Ciro Quispe López	October 20, 1973	November 30, 2001	December 15, 2018	Latin Church	Peru	50 years, 276 days
49	Carlos Enrique Samaniego López	October 8, 1973	January 4, 2001	March 25, 2019	Latin Church	Mexico	50 years, 288 days
50	Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez	October 4, 1973	December 8, 2000	January 25, 2018	Latin Church	Costa Rica	50 years, 292 days
51	Georgios Altouvas	September 28, 1973	October 3, 1998	February 7, 2021	Latin Church	Greece	50 years, 298 days
52 / 53	Javier Vilanova Pellisa	September 23, 1973	November 22, 1998	December 20, 2020	Latin Church	Spain	50 years, 303 days
	Lizardo Estrada Herrera	September 23, 1973	August 5, 2005	February 24, 2021	Latin Church	Peru	50 years, 303 days
54	Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés	September 17, 1973	September 11, 1998	January 23, 2021	Latin Church	Ecuador	50 years, 309 days
55	Andrés Luis García Jasso	September 16, 1973	May 5, 2007	August 24, 2021	Latin Church	Mexico	50 years, 310 days
56	Gábor Mohos	September 11, 1973	June 19, 1999	December 8, 2018	Latin Church	Hungary	50 years, 315 days
57	Oscar Efraín Tamez Villareal	September 4, 1973	August 15, 2003	January 11, 2017	Latin Church	Mexico	50 years, 322 days
58	Peter Adrian Chifukwa	August 27, 1973	June 12, 2004	August 28, 2021	Latin Church	Malawi	50 years, 330 days
59	Luis Manuel Pérez Raygoza	August 21, 1973	May 13, 2000	March 19, 2020	Latin Church	Mexico	50 years, 336 days
60	Rumen Stanev	August 19, 1973	September 11, 1999	January 17, 2021	Latin Church	Bulgaria	50 years, 338 days
61	Francisco Castro Lalupú	August 13, 1973	June 6, 2004	September 29, 2020	Latin Church	Peru	50 years, 344 days
62	Jacek Grzybowski	August 11, 1973	May 30, 1998	December 19, 2020	Latin Church	Poland	50 years, 346 days
63	Paul Sundu	July 27, 1973	January 17, 2006	July 3, 2021	Latin Church	Papua New Guinea	50 years, 361 days
64	Linas Vodopjanovas	June 8, 1973	July 15, 2000	April 14, 2012	Latin Church	Lithuania	51 years, 44 days
65	Justin Ain Soongie	June 2, 1973	May 11, 2005	September 2, 2021	Latin Church	Papua New Guinea	51 years, 50 days
66	Nicolai Dubinin	May 27, 1973	June 24, 2000	October 4, 2020	Latin Church	Russia	51 years, 56 days
67	Gustavo Oscar Carrara	May 24, 1973	October 24, 1998	December 16, 2017	Latin Church	Argentina	51 years, 59 days
68	Nil Lushchak	May 22, 1973	July 2, 1996	January 12, 2013	Ruthenian Catholic	Ukraine	51 years, 61 days
69	Célio da Silveira Calixto Filho	May 8, 1973	September 28, 2002	August 22, 2020	Latin Church	Brazil	51 years, 75 days
70	Marián Andrej Pacák	April 24, 1973	July 12, 1998	September 2, 2018	Slovak Catholic	Slovakia/Canada	51 years, 89 days
71	Eduard Daher	April 23, 1973	May 8, 1999	September 7, 2013	Melkite Catholic	Lebanon	51 years, 90 days
72	Darius Trijonis	April 21, 1973	May 18, 1997	December 16, 2017	Latin Church	Lithuania	51 years, 92 days
73	John Nellikunnel	March 22, 1973	December 30, 1998	April 5, 2018	Syro-Malabar Catholic	India	51 years, 122 days
74	Raúl Pizarro	March 12, 1973	October 23, 1998	February 26, 2021	Latin Church	Argentina	51 years, 132 days
75	Valter Magno de Carvalho	February 22, 1973	August 23, 1997	January 23, 2021	Latin Church	Brazil	51 years, 151 days
76	Simon Kulli	February 14, 1973	June 29, 2000	September 14, 2017	Latin Church	Albania	51 years, 159 days
77	Amancio Francisco Benítez Candia	February 10, 1973	April 24, 1999	August 4, 2018	Latin Church	Paraguay	51 years, 163 days
78	Arkadiusz Trochanowski	January 6, 1973	July 29, 2000	January 23, 2021	Ukrainian Catholic	Poland	51 years, 198 days
79	Valdemir Vicente Andrade Santos	January 5, 1973	August 24, 2001	August 24, 2018	Latin Church	Brazil	51 years, 199 days
80	Charles Ndaka Salabisala	January 4, 1973	September 9, 2001	October 10, 2020	Latin Church	DR Congo	51 years, 200 days
81	Stephen Nyodho Ador Majwok	January 1, 1973	May 15, 2005	July 28, 2019	Latin Church	South Sudan	51 years, 203 days
82	Gilles Reithinger	November 25, 1972	June 27, 1999	July 4, 2021	Latin Church	France	51 years, 240 days
83	Fransiskus Tuaman Sinaga	November 22, 1972	February 14, 2003	July 29, 2021	Latin Church	Indonesia	51 years, 243 days
84	David Israel De la Torre Altamirano	November 8, 1972	August 3, 2001	December 7, 2019	Latin Church	Ecuador	51 years, 257 days
85	Bohdan Manyshyn	October 24, 1972	September 15, 2002	May 24, 2014	Ukrainian Catholic	Ukraine	51 years, 272 days
86	John Bosco Auram	October 19, 1972	January 17, 2004	January 25, 2020	Latin Church	Papua New Guinea	51 years, 277 days
87	Alexis Aly Tagbino	October 17, 1972	March 2, 2003	February 26, 2017	Latin Church	Guinea	51 years, 279 days
88	Simon Chibuga Masondole	October 2, 1972	July 2, 2006	July 4, 2021	Latin Church	Tanzania	51 years, 294 days
89	Ábel Szocska	September 21, 1972	September 30, 2001	May 10, 2018	Hungarian Catholic	Ukraine/Hungary	51 years, 305 days
90	Ricardo Basilio Morales Galindo	September 11, 1972	March 3, 2006	September 12, 2020	Latin Church	Chile	51 years, 315 days
91	Saad Sirop	September 6, 1972	October 13, 2001	January 24, 2014	Chaldean Catholic	Iraq	51 years, 320 days
92	Peter Beňo	September 2, 1972	September 14, 1996	April 24, 2021	Latin Church	Slovakia	51 years, 324 days
93	Vitaliy Kryvytskyi	August 19, 1972	May 24, 1997	June 24, 2017	Latin Church	Ukraine	51 years, 338 days
94	Cleocir Bonetti	August 6, 1972	February 6, 1999	September 12, 2021	Latin Church	Brazil	51 years, 351 days
95	Claudiu-Lucian Pop	July 22, 1972	July 23, 1995	December 8, 2011	Romanian Catholic	Romania	52 years, 0 days
96	Jaime Cristóbal Abril González	July 17, 1972	February 10, 1996	June 4, 2016	Latin Church	Colombia	52 years, 5 days
97	Jose Ramirez Rapadas	July 12, 1972	May 19, 1999	August 20, 2019	Latin Church	Philippines	52 years, 10 days
98	Petar Palić	July 3, 1972	June 1, 1996	April 30, 2018	Latin Church	Kosovo/Bosnia and Herzegovina	52 years, 19 days
99	Anthony Li Hui	May 1972	October 18, 1996	July 28, 2021	Latin Church	China	52 years, 52 days
100	Antoni Vadell Ferrer	May 17, 1972	May 31, 1998	September 9, 2017	Latin Church	Spain	52 years, 66 days

List of elected prelates to consecrate

Rank	Bishop	Date of birth	Ordained Priest	Expecting consecration	Church sui iuris	Country of origin	Age (years, days)
1	Christian Carlassare	October 1, 1977	September 4, 2004	TBD	Latin Church	Italy/South Sudan	46 years, 295 days
2	Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko	February 14, 1976	July 25, 2008	TBD	Chaldean Catholic	Iraq	48 years, 159 days
3	Massimiliano Palinuro	June 10, 1974	April 24, 1999	December 8, 2021	Latin Church	Italy/Turkey	50 years, 42 days
4	Milad Jawish	December 19, 1973	May 6, 2000	October 30, 2021	Melkite Catholic	Lebanon/Canada	50 years, 216 days
5	Raphael Macebo Mabuza Ncube	October 4, 1973	February 3, 2001	October 30, 2021	Latin Church	Zimbabwe	50 years, 292 days
6	Dominique Tinoudji	August 8, 1973	January 8, 2005	October 2, 2021	Latin Church	Chad	50 years, 349 days

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy.org ^{[self-published]}
• GCatholic.org ^{[self-published]}

See also

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