List of oldest Catholic bishops

Peter Leo Gerety, the oldest living Catholic bishop

This is a list of the 100 oldest living Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals (in yellow). The current breakdown of the 100 persons is 86 bishops and 14 cardinals (13 of whom are bishops).

Rank	Bishop or Cardinal	Date of Birth	Ordained Priest	Consecrated Bishop	Country of Origin	Age (Years/Days)
1	Peter Leo Gerety	July 19, 1912	June 29, 1939	June 1, 1966	United States	103 years, 293 days
2	Jan van Cauwelaert	April 12, 1914	August 6, 1939	March 25, 1954	Belgium	102 years, 25 days
3	Bernardino Piñera	September 22, 1915	April 5, 1947	April 27, 1958	Chile	100 years, 228 days
4	Loris Francesco Capovilla	October 14, 1915	May 23, 1940	July 16, 1967	Italy	100 years, 206 days
5	Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia	October 17, 1915	June 27, 1943	January 30, 1964	Spain	100 years, 203 days
6	Albert Malbois	November 17, 1915	June 29, 1938	April 22, 1961	France	100 years, 172 days
7	Damián Iguacén Borau	February 12, 1916	June 7, 1941	October 11, 1970	Spain	100 years, 85 days
8	Giovanni Benedetti	March 12, 1917	May 26, 1940	January 23, 1975	Italy	99 years, 56 days
9	Hubertus Ernst	April 8, 1917	June 7, 1941	December 17, 1967	Netherlands	99 years, 29 days
10	Gérard Tremblay	October 27, 1918	June 16, 1946	May 22, 1981	Canada	97 years, 193 days
11	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	February 18, 1919	December 14, 1941	August 28, 1955	Colombia	97 years, 79 days
12	José Maria Pires	March 15, 1919	December 20, 1941	September 22, 1957	Brazil	97 years, 53 days
13	Hovhannes Tcholakian	April 12, 1919	April 25, 1943	March 5, 1967	Turkey	97 years, 25 days
14	Gérard Dionne	June 19, 1919	May 1, 1948	April 8, 1975	Canada	96 years, 323 days
15	Martin Nicholas Lohmuller	August 21, 1919	June 3, 1944	April 2, 1970	United States	96 years, 260 days
16	Aldo Mongiano	November 1, 1919	June 3, 1943	October 5, 1975	Italy	96 years, 188 days
17	Georges-Hilaire Dupont	November 16, 1919	May 9, 1943	May 1, 1964	France	96 years, 173 days
18	Andrés Sapelak	December 13, 1919	June 29, 1949	October 15, 1961	Argentina/ Ukraine	96 years, 146 days
19	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada	96 years, 49 days
20	Antônio Afonso de Miranda	April 14, 1920	November 1, 1945	December 27, 1971	Brazil	96 years, 23 days
21	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	May 15, 1920	May 7, 1950	July 16, 1961	Lebanon	95 years, 358 days
22	Jean Chabbert	December 31, 1920	June 29, 1947	July 7, 1967	France	95 years, 128 days
23	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico	95 years, 96 days
24	José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco	March 30, 1921	March 27, 1948	July 25, 1965	Mexico	95 years, 38 days
25	Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González	April 16, 1921	July 15, 1945	March 19, 1962	Argentina/ Uruguay	95 years, 21 days
26	Boleslaw Pylak	August 20, 1921	June 29, 1948	May 29, 1966	Poland	94 years, 261 days
27	Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen	August 21, 1921	June 1, 1946	August 30, 1962	United States	94 years, 260 days
28	Linus Nirmal Gomes	September 7, 1921	November 21, 1954	November 19, 1977	India	94 years, 243 days
29	Francis Quinn	September 11, 1921	June 15, 1946	June 29, 1978	United States	94 years, 239 days
30	Odore Joseph Gendron	September 13, 1921	May 31, 1947	February 3, 1975	United States	94 years, 237 days
31	Paulo Evaristo Arns	September 14, 1921	November 30, 1945	July 3, 1966	Brazil	94 years, 236 days
32	Jacques Landriault	September 23, 1921	February 9, 1947	July 25, 1962	Canada	94 years, 227 days
33	Girolamo Prigione	October 12, 1921	May 18, 1944	November 24, 1968	Italy	94 years, 208 days
34	József Szendi	October 31, 1921	December 24, 1944	April 21, 1982	Hungary	94 years, 189 days
35	Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff	November 30, 1921	March 15, 1953	September 10, 1972	Netherlands	94 years, 159 days
36	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico	94 years, 127 days
37	Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez	January 17, 1922	March 22, 1947	June 21, 1960	Mexico	94 years, 111 days
38	Jožef Smej	February 15, 1922	December 8, 1944	May 23, 1983	Slovenia	94 years, 82 days
39	Louis Anthony DeSimone	February 21, 1922	May 10, 1952	August 12, 1981	United States	94 years, 76 days
40	Hilarion Capucci	March 2, 1922	July 20, 1947	September 5, 1965	Syria	94 years, 66 days
41	Luigi Barbarito	April 19, 1922	August 20, 1944	August 10, 1969	Italy	94 years, 18 days
42	Dante Bernini	April 20, 1922	August 12, 1945	December 8, 1971	Italy	94 years, 17 days
43	Antun Bogetić	April 24, 1922	June 29, 1946	April 28, 1984	Croatia	94 years, 13 days
44	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini	May 4, 1922	August 12, 1945	April 25, 1983	Italy	94 years, 3 days
45	Gilberto Agustoni	July 26, 1922	April 20, 1946	January 6, 1987	Switzerland	93 years, 286 days
46	Roger Etchegaray	September 25, 1922	July 13, 1947	May 27, 1969	France	93 years, 225 days
47	Abraham D. Mattam	November 21, 1922	March 15, 1950	April 30, 1977	India	93 years, 168 days
48	Miguel Esteban Hesayne	December 26, 1922	December 12, 1948	June 4, 1975	Argentina	93 years, 133 days
49	Antonio Riboldi	January 16, 1923	June 29, 1951	March 11, 1978	Italy	93 years, 112 days
50	Chucrallah Harb	May 5, 1923	June 19, 1949	May 14, 1967	Lebanon	93 years, 2 days
51	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy	93 years, 1 day
52	Daniel Kucera	May 7, 1923	May 26, 1949	July 21, 1977	United States	93 years, 0 days
53	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States	92 years, 333 days
54	Conrado Walter	June 19, 1923	December 2, 1956	February 2, 1978	Germany	92 years, 323 days
55	Albert Vanhoye	July 23, 1923	July 25, 1954	-----------	France	92 years, 289 days
56	Andrea Veggio	August 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	September 8, 1983	Italy	92 years, 252 days
57	Joseph Lawson Howze	August 30, 1923	May 7, 1959	January 28, 1973	United States	92 years, 251 days
58	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain	92 years, 244 days
	Maximilian Ziegelbauer	September 6, 1923	May 21, 1950	October 22, 1983	Germany	92 years, 244 days
60	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy	92 years, 222 days
61	Henryk Gulbinowicz	October 17, 1923	June 18, 1950	February 8, 1970	Poland	92 years, 203 days
62	Achille Silvestrini	October 25, 1923	July 13, 1946	May 27, 1979	Italy	92 years, 195 days
63	Newton Holanda Gurgel	November 1, 1923	December 17, 1949	May 27, 1979	Brazil	92 years, 188 days
64	Giovanni Moretti	November 20, 1923	June 28, 1947	October 24, 1971	Italy	92 years, 169 days
65	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy	92 years, 163 days
66	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy	92 years, 160 days
67	Manuel Vieira Pinto	December 8, 1923	August 7, 1949	June 29, 1967	Mozambique	92 years, 151 days
68	Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt	December 9, 1923	June 29, 1948	September 18, 1971	France	92 years, 150 days
69	Luis Alberto Luna Tobar	December 15, 1923	June 23, 1946	September 18, 1977	Ecuador	92 years, 144 days
70	John C. O'Riordan	January 6, 1924	June 29, 1952	December 2, 1984	Ireland	92 years, 122 days
71	Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau	January 10, 1924	June 28, 1947	April 22, 1979	France	92 years, 118 days
72	Léon-Raymond Soulier	January 13, 1924	September 7, 1947	September 12, 1971	France	92 years, 115 days
73	Stanisław Szymecki	January 26, 1924	July 3, 1947	April 12, 1981	Poland	92 years, 102 days
74	Silvano Piovanelli	February 21, 1924	July 13, 1947	June 24, 1982	Italy	92 years, 76 days
75	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada	92 years, 73 days
76	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia	92 years, 57 days
77	Urbano José Allgayer	March 16, 1924	December 10, 1950	March 24, 1974	Brazil	92 years, 52 days
78	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos	March 18, 1924	June 25, 1953	March 9, 1975	Mozambique	92 years, 50 days
79	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan	92 years, 37 days
80	Carmelo Cassati	April 6, 1924	December 17, 1949	June 28, 1970	Italy	92 years, 31 days
81	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	April 7, 1924	March 10, 1955	May 25, 1979	Philippines	92 years, 30 days
82	Joseph Neil MacNeil	April 15, 1924	May 23, 1948	June 24, 1969	Canada	92 years, 22 days
83	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy	91 years, 363 days
84	Yves-Marie-Henri Bescond	May 19, 1924	June 29, 1949	March 28, 1971	France	91 years, 354 days
85	James Martin Hayes	May 27, 1924	June 15, 1947	April 20, 1965	Canada	91 years, 346 days
86	Colin Cameron Davies	June 10, 1924	July 13, 1952	February 27, 1977	Spain	91 years, 332 days
87	Edward Cassidy	July 5, 1924	July 23, 1949	November 15, 1970	Australia	91 years, 307 days
88	Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa	July 8, 1924	October 6, 1949	March 25, 1976	Portugal	91 years, 304 days
89	Daniel Alphonse Omer Verstraete	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa	91 years, 281 days
90	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	August 13, 1924	March 12, 1949	May 7, 1959	Brazil	91 years, 268 days
91	Fulgence Werner Le Roy	August 23, 1924	September 22, 1947	September 14, 1975	South Africa	91 years, 258 days
92	Nicolas M. Mondejar	September 15, 1924	April 4, 1953	August 30, 1970	Philippines	91 years, 235 days
93	Alphonsus Liguori Penney	September 17, 1924	June 29, 1949	January 17, 1973	Canada	91 years, 233 days
94	Rosario Mazzola	September 19, 1924	June 16, 1950	September 4, 1982	Italy	91 years, 231 days
95	Stephen Sulyk	October 1, 1924	June 14, 1952	March 1, 1981	United States	91 years, 219 days
96	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	October 3, 1924	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	Brazil	91 years, 217 days
97	Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa Berrones	October 7, 1924	October 9, 1949	April 5, 1974	Mexico	91 years, 213 days
98	Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau	November 2, 1924	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	Belgium	91 years, 187 days
99	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	November 7, 1924	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	Spain	91 years, 182 days
100	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	November 8, 1924	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	South Korea	91 years, 181 days

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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