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 88 bishops and 12 cardinals (11 of whom are bishops).

RankBishop or CardinalDate of BirthOrdained PriestConsecrated BishopCountry of OriginAge (Years/Days)
1Bernardino PiñeraSeptember 22, 1915April 5, 1947April 27, 1958 Chile101 years, 83 days
2Victor Garaygordóbil BerrizbeitiaOctober 17, 1915June 27, 1943January 30, 1964 Spain101 years, 58 days
3Albert MalboisNovember 17, 1915June 29, 1938April 22, 1961 France101 years, 27 days
4Damián Iguacén BorauFebruary 12, 1916June 7, 1941October 11, 1970 Spain100 years, 306 days
5Giovanni BenedettiMarch 12, 1917May 26, 1940January 23, 1975 Italy99 years, 277 days
6Hubertus ErnstApril 8, 1917June 7, 1941December 17, 1967 Netherlands99 years, 250 days
7Gérard TremblayOctober 27, 1918June 16, 1946May 22, 1981 Canada98 years, 48 days
8José de Jesús Pimiento RodríguezFebruary 18, 1919December 14, 1941August 28, 1955 Colombia97 years, 300 days
9José Maria PiresMarch 15, 1919December 20, 1941September 22, 1957 Brazil97 years, 274 days
10Gérard DionneJune 19, 1919May 1, 1948April 8, 1975 Canada97 years, 178 days
11Martin Nicholas LohmullerAugust 21, 1919June 3, 1944April 2, 1970 United States97 years, 115 days
12Aldo MongianoNovember 1, 1919June 3, 1943October 5, 1975 Italy97 years, 43 days
13Georges-Hilaire DupontNovember 16, 1919May 9, 1943May 1, 1964 France97 years, 28 days
14Andrés SapelakDecember 13, 1919June 29, 1949October 15, 1961 Argentina/ Ukraine97 years, 1 day
15Laurent NoëlMarch 19, 1920June 16, 1944August 29, 1963 Canada96 years, 270 days
16Antônio Afonso de MirandaApril 14, 1920November 1, 1945December 27, 1971 Brazil96 years, 244 days
17Nasrallah Boutros SfeirMay 15, 1920May 7, 1950July 16, 1961 Lebanon96 years, 213 days
18Francisco Raúl Villalobos PadillaFebruary 1, 1921August 3, 1949May 4, 1971 Mexico95 years, 317 days
19José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-VelascoMarch 30, 1921March 27, 1948July 25, 1965 Mexico95 years, 259 days
20Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres GonzálezApril 16, 1921July 15, 1945March 19, 1962 Argentina/ Uruguay95 years, 242 days
21Boleslaw PylakAugust 20, 1921June 29, 1948May 29, 1966 Poland95 years, 116 days
22Raymond Gerhardt HunthausenAugust 21, 1921June 1, 1946August 30, 1962 United States95 years, 115 days
23Linus Nirmal GomesSeptember 7, 1921November 21, 1954November 19, 1977 India95 years, 98 days
24Francis QuinnSeptember 11, 1921June 15, 1946June 29, 1978 United States95 years, 94 days
25Odore Joseph GendronSeptember 13, 1921May 31, 1947February 3, 1975 United States95 years, 92 days
26Paulo Evaristo ArnsSeptember 14, 1921 November 30, 1945July 3, 1966 Brazil95 years, 91 days
27Jacques LandriaultSeptember 23, 1921February 9, 1947July 25, 1962 Canada95 years, 82 days
28József SzendiOctober 31, 1921December 24, 1944April 21, 1982 Hungary95 years, 44 days
29Herman Ferdinandus Maria MünninghoffNovember 30, 1921March 15, 1953September 10, 1972 Netherlands95 years, 14 days
30José de Jesús Sahagún de la ParraJanuary 1, 1922May 28, 1946September 8, 1961 Mexico94 years, 348 days
31Arturo Antonio Szymanski RamírezJanuary 17, 1922March 22, 1947June 21, 1960 Mexico94 years, 332 days
32Jožef SmejFebruary 15, 1922December 8, 1944May 23, 1983 Slovenia94 years, 303 days
33Louis Anthony DeSimoneFebruary 21, 1922May 10, 1952August 12, 1981 United States94 years, 297 days
34Hilarion CapucciMarch 2, 1922July 20, 1947September 5, 1965 Syria94 years, 287 days
35Luigi BarbaritoApril 19, 1922August 20, 1944August 10, 1969 Italy94 years, 239 days
36Dante BerniniApril 20, 1922August 12, 1945December 8, 1971 Italy94 years, 238 days
37Antun BogetićApril 24, 1922June 29, 1946April 28, 1984 Croatia94 years, 234 days
38Giovanni Paolo GibertiniMay 4, 1922August 12, 1945April 25, 1983 Italy94 years, 224 days
39Gilberto AgustoniJuly 26, 1922April 20, 1946January 6, 1987  Switzerland94 years, 141 days
40Roger EtchegaraySeptember 25, 1922July 13, 1947May 27, 1969 France94 years, 80 days
41Abraham D. MattamNovember 21, 1922March 15, 1950April 30, 1977 India94 years, 23 days
42Miguel Esteban HesayneDecember 26, 1922December 12, 1948June 4, 1975 Argentina93 years, 354 days
43Antonio RiboldiJanuary 16, 1923June 29, 1951March 11, 1978 Italy93 years, 333 days
44Chucrallah HarbMay 5, 1923June 19, 1949May 14, 1967 Lebanon93 years, 223 days
45Bruno ForestiMay 6, 1923April 7, 1946January 12, 1975 Italy93 years, 222 days
46Daniel KuceraMay 7, 1923May 26, 1949July 21, 1977 United States93 years, 221 days
47René Henry GracidaJune 9, 1923May 23, 1959January 25, 1972 United States93 years, 188 days
48Conrado WalterJune 19, 1923December 2, 1956February 2, 1978 Germany93 years, 178 days
49Albert VanhoyeJuly 23, 1923July 25, 1954----------- France93 years, 144 days
50Andrea VeggioAugust 29, 1923June 29, 1947September 8, 1983 Italy93 years, 107 days
51Joseph Lawson HowzeAugust 30, 1923May 7, 1959January 28, 1973 United States93 years, 106 days
52Eloy Tato LosadaSeptember 6, 1923June 15, 1946July 25, 1960 Spain93 years, 99 days
53Giuseppe CasaleSeptember 28, 1923February 3, 1946December 8, 1974 Italy93 years, 77 days
54Henryk GulbinowiczOctober 17, 1923June 18, 1950February 8, 1970 Poland93 years, 58 days
55Achille SilvestriniOctober 25, 1923July 13, 1946May 27, 1979 Italy93 years, 50 days
56Newton Holanda GurgelNovember 1, 1923December 17, 1949May 27, 1979 Brazil93 years, 43 days
57Giovanni MorettiNovember 20, 1923June 28, 1947October 24, 1971 Italy93 years, 24 days
58Luigi BettazziNovember 26, 1923August 4, 1946October 4, 1963 Italy93 years, 18 days
59Augusto LauroNovember 29, 1923June 29, 1947October 28, 1975 Italy93 years, 15 days
60Manuel Vieira PintoDecember 8, 1923August 7, 1949June 29, 1967 Mozambique93 years, 6 days
61Jean Pierre Marie OrchamptDecember 9, 1923June 29, 1948September 18, 1971 France93 years, 5 days
62Luis Alberto Luna TobarDecember 15, 1923June 23, 1946September 18, 1977 Ecuador92 years, 365 days
63Pierre Marie Léon Augustin PlateauJanuary 10, 1924June 28, 1947April 22, 1979 France92 years, 339 days
64Léon-Raymond SoulierJanuary 13, 1924September 7, 1947September 12, 1971 France92 years, 336 days
65Stanisław SzymeckiJanuary 26, 1924July 3, 1947April 12, 1981 Poland92 years, 323 days
66Remi De RooFebruary 24, 1924June 8, 1950December 14, 1962 Canada92 years, 294 days
67Jozef TomkoMarch 11, 1924March 12, 1949September 15, 1979 Slovakia92 years, 278 days
68Urbano José AllgayerMarch 16, 1924December 10, 1950March 24, 1974 Brazil92 years, 273 days
69Alexandre José Maria dos SantosMarch 18, 1924June 25, 1953March 9, 1975 Mozambique92 years, 271 days
70Peter Takaaki HirayamaMarch 31, 1924March 19, 1957January 25, 1970 Japan92 years, 258 days
71Carmelo CassatiApril 6, 1924December 17, 1949June 28, 1970 Italy92 years, 252 days
72Manuel C. SobreviñasApril 7, 1924March 10, 1955May 25, 1979 Philippines92 years, 251 days
73Joseph Neil MacNeilApril 15, 1924May 23, 1948June 24, 1969 Canada92 years, 243 days
74Settimio TodiscoMay 10, 1924July 27, 1947February 15, 1970 Italy92 years, 218 days
75Yves-Marie-Henri BescondMay 19, 1924June 29, 1949March 28, 1971 France92 years, 209 days
76Colin Cameron DaviesJune 10, 1924July 13, 1952February 27, 1977 Spain92 years, 187 days
77Edward CassidyJuly 5, 1924July 23, 1949November 15, 1970 Australia92 years, 162 days
78Daniel Alphonse Omer VerstraeteJuly 31, 1924February 19, 1950May 14, 1978 South Africa92 years, 136 days
79Serafim Fernandes de AraújoAugust 13, 1924March 12, 1949May 7, 1959 Brazil92 years, 123 days
80Fulgence Werner Le RoyAugust 23, 1924September 22, 1947September 14, 1975 South Africa92 years, 113 days
81Nicolas M. MondejarSeptember 15, 1924April 4, 1953August 30, 1970 Philippines92 years, 90 days
82Alphonsus Liguori PenneySeptember 17, 1924June 29, 1949January 17, 1973 Canada92 years, 88 days
83Rosario MazzolaSeptember 19, 1924June 16, 1950September 4, 1982 Italy92 years, 86 days
84Stephen SulykOctober 1, 1924June 14, 1952March 1, 1981 United States92 years, 74 days
85Manuel Edmilson da CruzOctober 3, 1924December 5, 1948November 6, 1966 Brazil92 years, 72 days
86Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa BerronesOctober 7, 1924October 9, 1949April 5, 1974 Mexico92 years, 68 days
87Albert Jean Charles Ghislain HoussiauNovember 2, 1924February 6, 1949May 18, 1986 Belgium92 years, 42 days
88Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena OcañaNovember 7, 1924April 1, 1951February 2, 1983 Spain92 years, 37 days
89Victorinus Youn Kong-hiNovember 8, 1924March 20, 1950October 20, 1963 South Korea92 years, 36 days
90John Aloysius O'MaraNovember 17, 1924June 1, 1951June 29, 1976 United States92 years, 27 days
91Savino Bernardo Maria Cazzaro BertolloNovember 28, 1924April 16, 1949February 13, 1964 Italy92 years, 16 days
92Gaetano BonicelliDecember 13, 1924May 22, 1948August 26, 1975 Italy92 years, 1 day
93Cesar C. RavalDecember 17, 1924May 22, 1952February 18, 1982 Philippines91 years, 363 days
94Paulinus Antanas BaltakisJanuary 1, 1925August 24, 1952September 14, 1984 Lithuania91 years, 348 days
95Dante Frasnelli TarterJanuary 6, 1925July 6, 1952November 1, 1967 Peru91 years, 343 days
96Georges Marcel Émile Nicolas PerronJanuary 12, 1925June 29, 1951March 14, 1993 France91 years, 337 days
97Matthew Kia Yen-wenJanuary 17, 1925July 15, 1951July 16, 1970 Taiwan91 years, 332 days
98Luciano José Cabral DuarteJanuary 21, 1925January 18, 1948October 2, 1966 Brazil91 years, 328 days
Štefan VrablecJanuary 21, 1925December 23, 1950July 26, 1998 Slovakia91 years, 328 days
100Pedro Luís Guido ScarpaFebruary 7, 1925March 26, 1950October 16, 1983 Italy91 years, 311 days
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