List of oldest Catholic bishops
This is a list of the 100 oldest living Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals (in yellow). The current breakdown of the 100 persons is 83 bishops and 17 cardinals (16 of whom are bishops).
Rank | Bishop or Cardinal | Date of birth | Ordained Priest | Consecrated Bishop | Country of origin | Age (years, days) |
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1 | Bernardino Piñera | September 22, 1915 | April 5, 1947 | April 27, 1958 | Chile | 7004377330000000000♠103 years, 112 days |
2 | Damián Iguacén Borau | February 12, 1916 | June 7, 1941 | October 11, 1970 | Spain | 7004375900000000000♠102 years, 334 days |
3 | Gérard Tremblay | October 27, 1918 | June 16, 1946 | May 22, 1981 | Canada | 7004366020000000000♠100 years, 77 days |
4 | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez | February 18, 1919 | December 14, 1941 | August 28, 1955 | Colombia | 7004364880000000000♠99 years, 328 days |
5 | Gérard Dionne | June 19, 1919 | May 1, 1948 | April 8, 1975 | Canada | 7004363670000000000♠99 years, 207 days |
6 | Aldo Mongiano | November 1, 1919 | June 3, 1943 | October 5, 1975 | Italy/ Brazil | 7004362320000000000♠99 years, 72 days |
7 | Georges-Hilaire Dupont | November 16, 1919 | May 9, 1943 | May 1, 1964 | France | 7004362170000000000♠99 years, 57 days |
8 | Laurent Noël | March 19, 1920 | June 16, 1944 | August 29, 1963 | Canada | 7004360930000000000♠98 years, 299 days |
9 | Antônio Afonso de Miranda | April 14, 1920 | November 1, 1945 | December 27, 1971 | Brazil | 7004360670000000000♠98 years, 273 days |
10 | Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir | May 15, 1920 | May 7, 1950 | July 16, 1961 | Lebanon | 7004360360000000000♠98 years, 242 days |
11 | Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla | February 1, 1921 | August 3, 1949 | May 4, 1971 | Mexico | 7004357740000000000♠97 years, 345 days |
12 | Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González | April 16, 1921 | July 15, 1945 | March 19, 1962 | Argentina/ Uruguay | 7004357000000000000♠97 years, 271 days |
13 | Boleslaw Pylak | August 20, 1921 | June 29, 1948 | May 29, 1966 | Poland | 7004355740000000000♠97 years, 145 days |
14 | Linus Nirmal Gomes | September 7, 1921 | November 21, 1954 | November 19, 1977 | India | 7004355560000000000♠97 years, 127 days |
15 | Francis Quinn | September 11, 1921 | June 15, 1946 | June 29, 1978 | United States | 7004355520000000000♠97 years, 123 days |
16 | Odore Joseph Gendron | September 13, 1921 | May 31, 1947 | February 3, 1975 | United States | 7004355500000000000♠97 years, 121 days |
17 | José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | January 1, 1922 | May 28, 1946 | September 8, 1961 | Mexico | 7004354400000000000♠97 years, 11 days |
18 | Jožef Smej | February 15, 1922 | December 8, 1944 | May 23, 1983 | Slovenia | 7004353950000000000♠96 years, 331 days |
19 | Dante Bernini | April 20, 1922 | August 12, 1945 | December 8, 1971 | Italy | 7004353310000000000♠96 years, 267 days |
20 | Giovanni Paolo Gibertini | May 4, 1922 | August 12, 1945 | April 25, 1983 | Italy | 7004353170000000000♠96 years, 253 days |
21 | Roger Etchegaray | September 25, 1922 | July 13, 1947 | May 27, 1969 | France | 7004351730000000000♠96 years, 109 days |
22 | Abraham D. Mattam | November 21, 1922 | March 15, 1950 | April 30, 1977 | India | 7004351160000000000♠96 years, 52 days |
23 | Miguel Esteban Hesayne | December 26, 1922 | December 12, 1948 | June 4, 1975 | Argentina | 7004350810000000000♠96 years, 17 days |
24 | Chucrallah Harb | May 5, 1923 | June 19, 1949 | May 14, 1967 | Lebanon | 7004349510000000000♠95 years, 252 days |
25 | Bruno Foresti | May 6, 1923 | April 7, 1946 | January 12, 1975 | Italy | 7004349500000000000♠95 years, 251 days |
26 | René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | May 23, 1959 | January 25, 1972 | United States | 7004349160000000000♠95 years, 217 days |
27 | Albert Vanhoye | July 24, 1923 | July 25, 1954 | -- | France | 7004348710000000000♠95 years, 172 days |
28 | Andrea Veggio | August 29, 1923 | June 29, 1947 | September 8, 1983 | Italy | 7004348350000000000♠95 years, 136 days |
29 | Eloy Tato Losada | September 6, 1923 | June 15, 1946 | July 25, 1960 | Spain | 7004348270000000000♠95 years, 128 days |
30 | Giuseppe Casale | September 28, 1923 | February 3, 1946 | December 8, 1974 | Italy | 7004348050000000000♠95 years, 106 days |
31 | Henryk Gulbinowicz | October 17, 1923 | June 18, 1950 | February 8, 1970 | Poland | 7004347860000000000♠95 years, 87 days |
32 | Achille Silvestrini | October 25, 1923 | July 13, 1946 | May 27, 1979 | Italy | 7004347780000000000♠95 years, 79 days |
33 | Luigi Bettazzi | November 26, 1923 | August 4, 1946 | October 4, 1963 | Italy | 7004347460000000000♠95 years, 47 days |
34 | Augusto Lauro | November 29, 1923 | June 29, 1947 | October 28, 1975 | Italy | 7004347430000000000♠95 years, 44 days |
35 | Manuel Vieira Pinto | December 8, 1923 | August 7, 1949 | June 29, 1967 | Mozambique | 7004347340000000000♠95 years, 35 days |
36 | Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt | December 9, 1923 | June 29, 1948 | September 18, 1971 | France | 7004347330000000000♠95 years, 34 days |
37 | Stanisław Szymecki | January 26, 1924 | July 3, 1947 | April 12, 1981 | Poland | 7004346850000000000♠94 years, 351 days |
38 | Remi De Roo | February 24, 1924 | June 8, 1950 | December 14, 1962 | Canada | 7004346560000000000♠94 years, 322 days |
39 | Jozef Tomko | March 11, 1924 | March 12, 1949 | September 15, 1979 | Slovakia | 7004346400000000000♠94 years, 307 days |
40 | Urbano José Allgayer | March 16, 1924 | December 10, 1950 | March 24, 1974 | Brazil | 7004346350000000000♠94 years, 302 days |
41 | Alexandre José Maria dos Santos | March 18, 1924 | June 25, 1953 | March 9, 1975 | Mozambique | 7004346330000000000♠94 years, 300 days |
42 | Peter Takaaki Hirayama | March 31, 1924 | March 19, 1957 | January 25, 1970 | Japan | 7004346200000000000♠94 years, 287 days |
43 | Manuel C. Sobreviñas | April 7, 1924 | March 10, 1955 | May 25, 1979 | Philippines | 7004346130000000000♠94 years, 280 days |
44 | Settimio Todisco | May 10, 1924 | July 27, 1947 | February 15, 1970 | Italy | 7004345800000000000♠94 years, 247 days |
45 | Edward Cassidy | July 5, 1924 | July 23, 1949 | November 15, 1970 | Australia | 7004345240000000000♠94 years, 191 days |
46 | Daniel Verstraete | July 31, 1924 | February 19, 1950 | May 14, 1978 | South Africa | 7004344980000000000♠94 years, 165 days |
47 | Serafim Fernandes de Araújo | August 13, 1924 | March 12, 1949 | May 7, 1959 | Brazil | 7004344850000000000♠94 years, 152 days |
48 | Nicolas M. Mondejar | September 15, 1924 | April 4, 1953 | August 30, 1970 | Philippines | 7004344520000000000♠94 years, 119 days |
49 | Stephen Sulyk | October 2, 1924 | June 14, 1952 | March 1, 1981 | United States | 7004344350000000000♠94 years, 102 days |
50 | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | October 3, 1924 | December 5, 1948 | November 6, 1966 | Brazil | 7004344340000000000♠94 years, 101 days |
51 | Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau | November 2, 1924 | February 6, 1949 | May 18, 1986 | Belgium | 7004344040000000000♠94 years, 71 days |
52 | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña | November 7, 1924 | April 1, 1951 | February 2, 1983 | Spain | 7004343990000000000♠94 years, 66 days |
53 | Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | November 8, 1924 | March 20, 1950 | October 20, 1963 | South Korea | 7004343980000000000♠94 years, 65 days |
54 | John Aloysius O'Mara | November 17, 1924 | June 1, 1951 | June 29, 1976 | United States | 7004343890000000000♠94 years, 56 days |
55 | Gaetano Bonicelli | December 13, 1924 | May 22, 1948 | August 26, 1975 | Italy | 7004343630000000000♠94 years, 30 days |
56 | Paulius Antanas Baltakis | January 1, 1925 | August 24, 1952 | September 14, 1984 | Lithuania | 7004343440000000000♠94 years, 11 days |
57 | Dante Frasnelli Tarter | January 6, 1925 | July 6, 1952 | November 1, 1967 | Peru | 7004343390000000000♠94 years, 6 days |
58 | Georges Marcel Émile Nicolas Perron | January 12, 1925 | June 29, 1951 | March 14, 1993 | France | 7004343330000000000♠94 years, 0 days |
59 | Alexandre do Nascimento | March 1, 1925 | December 20, 1952 | August 31, 1975 | Angola | 7004342850000000000♠93 years, 317 days |
60 | Guy Alexis Herbulot | March 7, 1925 | June 29, 1950 | September 8, 1974 | France | 7004342790000000000♠93 years, 311 days |
João Evangelista Martins Terra | March 7, 1925 | December 22, 1956 | November 20, 1988 | Brazil | 7004342790000000000♠93 years, 311 days | |
62 | James Hector MacDonald | April 28, 1925 | June 29, 1953 | April 17, 1978 | Canada | 7004342270000000000♠93 years, 259 days |
63 | José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago | May 14, 1925 | December 5, 1948 | January 6, 1962 | Brazil | 7004342110000000000♠93 years, 243 days |
64 | Enzio d'Antonio | May 16, 1925 | June 29, 1949 | May 11, 1975 | Italy | 7004342090000000000♠93 years, 241 days |
65 | Ignatius Paul Pinto | May 18, 1925 | August 24, 1952 | January 31, 1989 | India | 7004342070000000000♠93 years, 239 days |
66 | Ernest Bertrand Boland | July 10, 1925 | June 9, 1955 | July 25, 1966 | United States | 7004341540000000000♠93 years, 186 days |
67 | Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand | July 11, 1925 | October 10, 1948 | September 14, 1975 | France | 7004341530000000000♠93 years, 185 days |
68 | Francisco Álvarez Martínez | July 14, 1925 | June 11, 1950 | June 3, 1973 | Spain | 7004341500000000000♠93 years, 182 days |
69 | Michael J. Cleary | September 1, 1925 | June 29, 1952 | March 25, 1981 | Ireland | 7004341010000000000♠93 years, 133 days |
70 | Patrick Leo McCartie | September 5, 1925 | July 17, 1949 | May 20, 1977 | Great Britain | 7004340970000000000♠93 years, 129 days |
71 | Joseph Gabriel Fernandez | September 16, 1925 | March 19, 1949 | May 14, 1978 | India | 7004340860000000000♠93 years, 118 days |
72 | Angelo Acerbi | September 23, 1925 | March 27, 1948 | June 30, 1974 | Italy | 7004340790000000000♠93 years, 111 days |
Cândido Lorenzo González | September 23, 1925 | June 6, 1954 | March 19, 1970 | Spain | 7004340790000000000♠93 years, 111 days | |
74 | Joseph Hitti | September 30, 1925 | March 24, 1951 | January 6, 1991 | Lebanon | 7004340720000000000♠93 years, 104 days |
75 | José Freire Falcão | October 23, 1925 | June 19, 1949 | June 28, 1988 | Brazil | 7004340490000000000♠93 years, 81 days |
76 | John J. Snyder | October 25, 1925 | June 9, 1951 | February 2, 1973 | United States | 7004340470000000000♠93 years, 79 days |
77 | Didier-Léon Marchand | November 1, 1925 | May 19, 1951 | November 5, 1978 | France | 7004340400000000000♠93 years, 72 days |
Arturo Lona Reyes | November 1, 1925 | August 15, 1952 | August 15, 1971 | Mexico | 7004340400000000000♠93 years, 72 days | |
79 | Jaime Mota de Farias | November 12, 1925 | August 25, 1957 | September 11, 1982 | Brazil | 7004340290000000000♠93 years, 61 days |
80 | Jacques de Saint-Blanquat | November 21, 1925 | March 29, 1952 | October 5, 1975 | France | 7004340200000000000♠93 years, 52 days |
81 | Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes | December 9, 1925 | December 17, 1949 | December 17, 1977 | Guatemala | 7004340020000000000♠93 years, 34 days |
82 | John R. Gorman | December 11, 1925 | May 1, 1956 | April 11, 1988 | United States | 7004340000000000000♠93 years, 32 days |
83 | Prosper Grech | December 24, 1925 | March 25, 1950 | February 8, 2012 | Malta | 7004339870000000000♠93 years, 19 days |
84 | José Manuel Estepa Llaurens | January 1, 1926 | June 27, 1954 | October 15, 1972 | Spain | 7004339790000000000♠93 years, 11 days |
85 | John Michael Sherlock | January 20, 1926 | June 3, 1950 | August 28, 1974 | Canada | 7004339600000000000♠92 years, 357 days |
86 | Jacó Roberto Hilgert | January 27, 1926 | November 30, 1952 | September 26, 1976 | Brazil | 7004339530000000000♠92 years, 350 days |
87 | Estanislao Esteban Karlic | February 7, 1926 | December 8, 1954 | August 15, 1977 | Argentina | 7004339420000000000♠92 years, 339 days |
88 | Juan Rodolfo Laise | February 22, 1926 | September 4, 1949 | May 29, 1971 | Argentina | 7004339270000000000♠92 years, 324 days |
89 | Luigi de Magistris | February 23, 1926 | April 12, 1952 | April 28, 1996 | Italy | 7004339260000000000♠92 years, 323 days |
90 | Gabino Díaz Merchán | February 26, 1926 | July 13, 1952 | August 22, 1965 | Spain | 7004339230000000000♠92 years, 320 days |
91 | Helímenas de Jesús Rojo Paredes | April 22, 1926 | July 8, 1950 | May 18, 1980 | Venezuela | 7004338680000000000♠92 years, 265 days |
92 | Franz Josef Kuhnle | April 27, 1926 | July 20, 1952 | November 27, 1976 | Germany | 7004338630000000000♠92 years, 260 days |
93 | Maurice Taylor | May 5, 1926 | July 2, 1950 | June 9, 1981 | Scotland | 7004338550000000000♠92 years, 252 days |
94 | Walter Ivan de Azevedo | May 8, 1926 | December 8, 1953 | July 27, 1986 | Brazil | 7004338520000000000♠92 years, 249 days |
95 | Desmond Charles Moore | May 12, 1926 | July 27, 1957 | July 2, 1970 | Australia | 7004338480000000000♠92 years, 245 days |
96 | Luigi Bommarito | June 1, 1926 | April 2, 1949 | June 1, 1976 | Italy | 7004338280000000000♠92 years, 225 days |
97 | Hildebrando Mendes Costa | June 16, 1926 | December 2, 1951 | May 24, 1981 | Brazil | 7004338130000000000♠92 years, 210 days |
98 | Ján Eugen Kočiš | June 25, 1926 | January 1, 1951 | May 15, 2004 | Slovakia | 7004338040000000000♠92 years, 201 days |
99 | Jānis Cakuls | July 4, 1926 | September 18, 1949 | December 11, 1982 | Latvia | 7004337950000000000♠92 years, 192 days |
100 | Emanuele Catarinicchia | July 12, 1926 | April 2, 1949 | December 17, 1978 | Italy | 7004337870000000000♠92 years, 184 days |
External links
- Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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