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]}

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- |- bgcolor="DDA0DD" !Rank !Bishop or Cardinal !Date of birth !Ordained Priest !Consecrated Bishop !Country of origin !Age (years, days) |- |_row_count||[[Laurent Noël]]||March 19, 1920||June 16, 1944||August 29, 1963||{{flag|Canada}}||{{ayd|1920|3|19}} |- |_row_count||[[Antônio Afonso de Miranda]]||April 14, 1920||November 1, 1945||December 27, 1971||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1920|4|14}} |- |_row_count||[[John Bai Ningxian]]||January 20, 1921||June 20, 1951||May 7, 1997||{{flag|China}}||{{ayd|1921|1|20}} |- |_row_count||[[Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla]]||February 1, 1921||August 3, 1949||May 4, 1971||{{flag|Mexico}}||{{ayd|1921|2|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Hou Guoyang]]||1922||1951||October 8, 1989||{{flag|China}}||99–98 years |- |_row_count||[[José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra]]||January 1, 1922||May 28, 1946||September 8, 1961||{{flag|Mexico}}||{{ayd|1922|1|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Stephen Yang Xiangtai]]||November 17, 1922||August 27, 1949||November 30, 1996||{{flag|China}}||{{ayd|1922|11|17}} |- |_row_count||[[Bruno Foresti]]||May 6, 1923||April 7, 1946||January 12, 1975||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|5|6}} |- |_row_count||[[René Henry Gracida]]||June 9, 1923||May 23, 1959||January 25, 1972||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1923|6|9}} |- |_row_count||[[Eloy Tato Losada]]||September 6, 1923||June 15, 1946||July 25, 1960||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1923|9|6}} |- |_row_count||[[Giuseppe Casale]]||September 28, 1923||February 3, 1946||December 8, 1974||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|9|28}} |- |_row_count||[[Luigi Bettazzi]]||November 26, 1923||August 4, 1946||October 4, 1963||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|11|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Augusto Lauro]]||November 29, 1923||June 29, 1947||October 28, 1975||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|11|29}} |- |_row_count||[[Thomas Zhao Duomo]]||1924||1951||February 17, 2004||{{flag|China}}||97–96 years |- |_row_count||[[Stanisław Szymecki]]||January 26, 1924||July 3, 1947||April 12, 1981||{{flag|Poland}}||{{ayd|1924|1|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Remi De Roo]]||February 24, 1924||June 8, 1950||December 14, 1962||{{flag|Canada}}||{{ayd|1924|2|24}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Jozef Tomko]]||March 11, 1924||March 12, 1949||September 15, 1979||{{flag|Slovakia}}||{{ayd|1924|3|11}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Alexandre José Maria dos Santos]]||March 18, 1924||June 25, 1953||March 9, 1975||{{flag|Mozambique}}||{{ayd|1924|3|18}} |- |_row_count||[[Peter Takaaki Hirayama]]||March 31, 1924||March 19, 1957||January 25, 1970||{{flag|Japan}}||{{ayd|1924|3|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Settimio Todisco]]||May 10, 1924||July 27, 1947||February 15, 1970||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1924|5|10}} |- |_row_count||[[Daniel Verstraete]]||July 31, 1924||February 19, 1950||May 14, 1978||{{flag|South Africa}}||{{ayd|1924|7|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Manuel Edmilson da Cruz]]||October 3, 1924||December 5, 1948||November 6, 1966||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1924|10|3}} |- |_row_count||[[Albert Houssiau]]||November 2, 1924||February 6, 1949||May 18, 1986||{{flag|Belgium}}||{{ayd|1924|11|2}} |- |_row_count||[[Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña]]||November 7, 1924||April 1, 1951||February 2, 1983||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1924|11|7}} |- |_row_count||[[Victorinus Youn Kong-hi]]||November 8, 1924||March 20, 1950||October 20, 1963||{{flag|South Korea}}||{{ayd|1924|11|8}} |- |_row_count||[[John Aloysius O'Mara]]||November 17, 1924||June 1, 1951||June 29, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1924|11|17}} |- |_row_count||[[Gaetano Bonicelli]]||December 13, 1924||May 22, 1948||August 26, 1975||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1924|12|13}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Alexandre do Nascimento]]||March 1, 1925||December 20, 1952||August 31, 1975||{{flag|Angola}}||{{ayd|1925|3|1}} |- |_row_count||[[João Evangelista Martins Terra]]||March 7, 1925||December 22, 1956||November 20, 1988||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1925|3|7}} |- |_row_count||[[James Hector MacDonald]]||April 28, 1925||June 29, 1953||April 17, 1978||{{flag|Canada}}||{{ayd|1925|4|28}} |- |_row_count||[[Ignatius Paul Pinto]]||May 18, 1925||August 24, 1952||January 31, 1989||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1925|5|18}} |- |_row_count||[[Ernest Bertrand Boland]]||July 10, 1925||June 9, 1955||July 25, 1966||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1925|7|10}} |- |_row_count||[[Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand]]||July 11, 1925||October 10, 1948||September 14, 1975||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|7|11}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Francisco Álvarez Martínez]] ||July 14, 1925||June 11, 1950||June 3, 1973||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1925|7|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Gabriel Fernandez]]||September 16, 1925||March 19, 1949||May 14, 1978||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1925|9|16}} |- |_row_count||[[Angelo Acerbi]]||September 23, 1925||March 27, 1948||June 30, 1974||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1925|9|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Hitti]]||September 30, 1925||March 24, 1951||January 6, 1991||{{flag|Lebanon}}||{{ayd|1925|9|30}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[José Freire Falcão]]||October 23, 1925||June 19, 1949||June 28, 1988||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1925|10|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Didier-Léon Marchand]]||November 1, 1925||May 19, 1951||November 5, 1978||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|11|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Jacques de Saint-Blanquat]]||November 21, 1925||March 29, 1952||October 5, 1975||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|11|21}} |- |_row_count||[[Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes]]||December 9, 1925||December 17, 1949||December 17, 1977||{{flag|Guatemala}}||{{ayd|1925|12|9}} |- |_row_count||[[John R. Gorman]]||December 11, 1925||May 1, 1956||April 11, 1988||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1925|12|11}} |- |_row_count||[[John Huo Cheng]]||February 1, 1926||May 14, 1954||September 4, 1991||{{flag|China}}||{{ayd|1926|2|1}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Estanislao Esteban Karlic]]||February 7, 1926||December 8, 1954||August 15, 1977||{{flag|Argentina}}||{{ayd|1926|2|7}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Luigi De Magistris (cardinal)|Luigi De Magistris]]||February 23, 1926||April 12, 1952||April 28, 1996||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|2|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Gabino Díaz Merchán]]||February 26, 1926||July 13, 1952||August 22, 1965||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1926|2|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Maurice Taylor (bishop)|Maurice Taylor]]||May 5, 1926||July 2, 1950||June 9, 1981||{{flag|United Kingdom}}||{{ayd|1926|5|5}} |- |_row_count||[[Walter Ivan de Azevedo]]||May 8, 1926||December 8, 1953||July 27, 1986||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|5|8}} |- |_row_count||[[Hildebrando Mendes Costa]]||June 16, 1926||December 2, 1951||May 24, 1981||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|6|16}} |- |_row_count||[[Jānis Cakuls]]||July 4, 1926||September 18, 1949||December 11, 1982||{{flag|Latvia}}||{{ayd|1926|7|4}} |- |_row_count||[[Emanuele Catarinicchia]]||July 12, 1926||April 2, 1949||December 17, 1978||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|7|12}} |- |_row_count||[[James Chan Soon Cheong]]||July 26, 1926||August 6, 1959||June 8, 1973||{{flag|Malaysia}}||{{ayd|1926|7|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Heitor de Araújo Sales]]||July 29, 1926||December 3, 1950||June 16, 1978||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|7|29}} |- |_row_count||[[Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto]]||August 11, 1926||December 6, 1950||August 28, 1966||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|8|11}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Agostino Cacciavillan]]||August 14, 1926||June 26, 1949||February 21, 1976||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|8|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Raúl Holguer López Mayorga]]||August 24, 1926||June 29, 1951||April 29, 1973||{{flag|Ecuador}}||{{ayd|1926|8|24}} |- |_row_count||[[Lawrence Donald Soens]]||August 26, 1926||May 6, 1950||August 17, 1983||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1926|8|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Juozas Žemaitis]]||August 30, 1926||September 25, 1949||March 18, 1989||{{flag|Lithuania}}||{{ayd|1926|8|30}} |- |_row_count||[[Gilbert Sheldon (Bishop of Steubenville)|Gilbert Sheldon]]||September 20, 1926||February 28, 1953||June 11, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1926|9|20}} |- |_row_count||[[Ernesto Togni]]||October 6, 1926||May 7, 1950||September 17, 1978||{{flag|Switzerland}}||{{ayd|1926|10|6}} |- |_row_count||[[Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi]]||November 21, 1926||December 17, 1950||December 10, 1982||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|11|21}} |- |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Emmanuel Wamala]]||December 15, 1926||December 21, 1957||November 22, 1981||{{flag|Uganda}}||{{ayd|1926|12|15}} |- |_row_count||[[Michael Pak Jeong-il]]||December 18, 1926||November 23, 1958||May 31, 1977||{{flag|South Korea}}||{{ayd|1926|12|18}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Jorge Medina]]||December 23, 1926||June 12, 1954||January 6, 1985||{{flag|Chile}}||{{ayd|1926|12|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Paolo Magnani]]||December 31, 1926||June 29, 1951||September 10, 1977||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|12|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên]]||January 7, 1927||May 14, 1960||November 19, 1992||{{flag|Vietnam}}||{{ayd|1927|1|7}} |- |_row_count||[[Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol]]||January 25, 1927||August 22, 1953||January 6, 1984||{{flag|South Korea}}||{{ayd|1927|1|25}} |- |_row_count||[[Julian Wojtkowski]]||January 31, 1927||June 25, 1950||August 22, 1969||{{flag|Poland}}||{{ayd|1927|1|31}} |- |rowspan="2"|_row_count / _row_count||[[Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno]]||February 14, 1927||June 29, 1953||March 3, 1990||{{flag|Ecuador}}||{{ayd|1927|2|14}} |- |[[Gilberto Pereira Lopes]]||February 14, 1927||December 14, 1949||December 18, 1969||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1927|2|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Senan Louis O’Donnell]]||February 24, 1927||July 17, 1955||November 28, 1993||{{flag|Ireland}}||{{ayd|1927|2|24}} |- |_row_count||[[Dominic Anthony Marconi]]||March 13, 1927||May 30, 1953||June 25, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|3|13}} |- |_row_count||[[Rembert George Weakland]]||April 2, 1927||June 24, 1951||September 20, 1977||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|4|2}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Pallikaparampil]]||April 10, 1927||November 23, 1958||August 15, 1973||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1927|4|10}} |-style="background-color:#FFF39E;" |_row_count||[[Pope Benedict XVI|Joseph Ratzinger]]||April 16, 1927||June 29, 1951||May 28, 1977||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1927|4|16}} |- |_row_count||[[José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui]]||May 20, 1927||November 20, 1949||October 25, 1977||{{flag|Colombia}}||{{ayd|1927|5|20}} |- |_row_count||[[Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral]]||May 25, 1927||December 8, 1954||April 20, 1975||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1927|5|25}} |- |_row_count||[[Raul Nicolau Gonçalves]]||June 15, 1927||December 21, 1950||March 5, 1967||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1927|6|15}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Martin Sartoris]]||July 1, 1927||May 30, 1953||March 19, 1994||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|7|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Howard George Tripp]]||July 3, 1927||May 31, 1953||January 30, 1980||{{flag|United Kingdom}}||{{ayd|1927|7|3}} |- |_row_count||[[James Timlin]]||August 5, 1927||July 16, 1951||September 21, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|8|5}} |- |_row_count||[[Alberto Tricarico]]||August 10, 1927||January 6, 1950||April 27, 1987||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|8|10}} |- |_row_count||[[Kazimierz Romaniuk]]||August 21, 1927||December 16, 1951||March 4, 1982||{{flag|Poland}}||{{ayd|1927|8|21}} |- |_row_count||[[Edoardo Rovida]]||August 26, 1927||June 29, 1950||October 10, 1971||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|8|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Abraham Than]]||September 21, 1927||September 22, 1957||May 11, 1969||{{flag|Myanmar}}||{{ayd|1927|9|21}} |- |_row_count||[[Abraham Nehmé]]||October 8, 1927||January 3, 1954||October 26, 1986||{{flag|Syria}}||{{ayd|1927|10|8}} |- |_row_count||[[Raymond E. Goedert]]||October 15, 1927||May 1, 1952||August 29, 1991||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|10|15}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Júlio Duarte Langa]]||October 27, 1927||June 9, 1957||October 24, 1976||{{flag|Mozambique}}||{{ayd|1927|10|27}} |- |_row_count||[[Pierre Trân Thanh Chung]]||November 10, 1927||May 25, 1955||November 22, 1981||{{flag|Vietnam}}||{{ayd|1927|11|10}} |- |_row_count||[[Daniel A. Cronin]]||November 14, 1927||December 20, 1952||September 12, 1968||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|11|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Raymond Razakarinvony]]||November 19, 1927||July 27, 1956||May 17, 1998||{{flag|Madagascar}}||{{ayd|1927|11|19}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Angelo Sodano]]||November 23, 1927||September 23, 1950||January 15, 1978||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|11|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer]]||December 4, 1927||August 6, 1955||April 27, 1983||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1927|12|4}} |- |_row_count||[[Vincenzo Rimedio]]||December 5, 1927||July 22, 1951||October 28, 1982||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|12|5}} |- |_row_count||[[Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz]]||December 28, 1927||June 29, 1950||January 5, 1989||{{flag|Peru}}||{{ayd|1927|12|28}} |- |_row_count||[[Giovanni Zerbini]]||December 29, 1927||June 29, 1956||February 19, 1995||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|12|29}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Friedrich Wetter]]||February 20, 1928||October 10, 1953||June 29, 1968||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1928|2|20}} |- |_row_count||[[Robert Joseph Banks]]||February 26, 1928||December 20, 1952||September 19, 1985||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1928|2|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Klaus Dick]]||February 27, 1928||February 24, 1953||May 19, 1975||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1928|2|27}} |- |_row_count||[[John Stephen Cummins]]||March 3, 1928||January 24, 1953||May 16, 1974||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1928|3|3}} <!-- Please do not add more than 10 bishops in this section |- |_row_count||[[Ernst Franz Gerd Werner Dicke]]||March 28, 1928||July 25, 1952||April 11, 1970||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1928|3|28}} |- |_row_count||[[Alfred Kleinermeilert]]||March 30, 1928||October 10, 1953||June 11, 1968||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1928|3|30}} |- |_row_count||[[Peter Henrici]]||March 31, 1928||July 23, 1958||May 31, 1993||{{flag|Switzerland}}||{{ayd|1928|3|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Antonino Orrù]]||April 23, 1928||July 13, 1952||May 13, 1990||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1928|4|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Allan Chamgwera]]||April 30, 1928||September 7, 1957||May 31, 1981||{{flag|Malawi}}||{{ayd|1928|4|30}} |- |_row_count||[[Louis Edward Gelineau]]||May 3, 1928||June 5, 1953||January 26, 1972||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1928|5|3}} |- |_row_count||[[Jacques Joseph Marie Despierre]]||May 6, 1928||June 24, 1952||October 10, 1982||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1928|5|6}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Ti-kang]]||May 7, 1928||December 20, 1953||July 22, 1975||{{flag|Taiwan}}||{{ayd|1928|5|7}} |- |rowspan="2"|_row_count / _row_count||[[Boutros Mouallem]]||May 10, 1928||November 21, 1955||June 29, 1990||{{flag|Israel}}||{{ayd|1928|5|10}} |- |[[John Quinn Weitzel]]||May 10, 1928||June 11, 1955||October 29, 1986||{{flag|American Samoa}}||{{ayd|1928|5|10}} --> |}

Notes

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.

See also

• List of youngest living Catholic bishops

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy.org
• The Holy See News service
• GCatholic.org