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)
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


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