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 85 bishops and 15 cardinals (14 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	7009324358560000000♠102 years, 286 days
2	Jan van Cauwelaert	April 12, 1914	August 6, 1939	March 25, 1954	Belgium	7009318895920000000♠101 years, 19 days
3	Bernardino Piñera	September 22, 1915	April 5, 1947	April 27, 1958	Chile	7009314329680000000♠99 years, 221 days
4	Loris Francesco Capovilla	October 14, 1915	May 23, 1940	July 16, 1967	Italy	7009314139600000000♠99 years, 199 days
5	Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia	October 17, 1915	June 27, 1943	January 30, 1964	Spain	7009314113680000000♠99 years, 196 days
6	Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol	October 19, 1915	August 10, 1940	February 25, 1964	Netherlands	7009314096400000000♠99 years, 194 days
7	Albert Malbois	November 17, 1915	June 29, 1938	April 22, 1961	France	7009313845840000000♠99 years, 165 days
8	Damián Iguacén Borau	February 12, 1916	June 7, 1941	October 11, 1970	Spain	7009313094160000000♠99 years, 78 days
9	Jorge Scarso	August 13, 1916	June 28, 1942	March 25, 1968	Italy	7009311519520000000♠98 years, 261 days
10	Giovanni Benedetti	March 12, 1917	May 26, 1940	January 23, 1975	Italy	7009309696480000000♠98 years, 50 days
11	Hubertus Ernst	April 8, 1917	June 7, 1941	December 17, 1967	Netherlands	7009309463200000000♠98 years, 23 days
12	Vincenzo Franco	June 1, 1917	July 6, 1947	January 26, 1975	Italy	7009308994480000000♠97 years, 334 days
13	Gérard Tremblay	October 27, 1918	June 16, 1946	May 22, 1981	Canada	7009304560000000000♠96 years, 186 days
14	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	February 18, 1919	December 14, 1941	August 28, 1955	Colombia	7009303575040000000♠96 years, 72 days
15	Gregorio Garavito Jiménez	March 9, 1919	July 24, 1942	February 11, 1962	Colombia	7009303410880000000♠96 years, 53 days
16	José Maria Pires	March 15, 1919	December 20, 1941	September 22, 1957	Brazil	7009303359040000000♠96 years, 47 days
17	Myles McKeon	April 3, 1919	June 22, 1947	September 12, 1962	Australia	7009303194880000000♠96 years, 28 days
18	Hovhannes Tcholakian	April 12, 1919	April 25, 1943	March 5, 1967	Turkey	7009303117120000000♠96 years, 19 days
19	Gérard Dionne	June 19, 1919	May 1, 1948	April 8, 1975	Canada	7009302527440000000♠95 years, 316 days
	Placidus Nkalanga	June 19, 1919	July 15, 1950	May 21, 1961	Tanzania	7009302527440000000♠95 years, 316 days
21	Martin Nicholas Lohmuller	August 21, 1919	June 3, 1944	April 2, 1970	United States	7009301983120000000♠95 years, 253 days
22	Aldo Mongiano	November 1, 1919	June 3, 1943	October 5, 1975	Italy	7009301361040000000♠95 years, 181 days
23	Georges-Hilaire Dupont	November 16, 1919	May 9, 1943	May 1, 1964	France	7009301231440000000♠95 years, 166 days
24	Andrés Sapelak	December 13, 1919	June 29, 1949	October 15, 1961	Poland	7009300998160000000♠95 years, 139 days
25	Carlos Quintero Arce	February 13, 1920	April 8, 1944	May 14, 1961	Mexico	7009300462480000000♠95 years, 77 days
26	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada	7009300168720000000♠95 years, 43 days
27	Antônio Afonso de Miranda	April 14, 1920	November 1, 1945	December 27, 1971	Brazil	7009299944080000000♠95 years, 17 days
28	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	May 15, 1920	May 7, 1950	July 16, 1961	Lebanon	7009299674080000000♠94 years, 351 days
29	Odo Fusi Pecci	June 29, 1920	December 19, 1942	August 29, 1971	Italy	7009299285280000000♠94 years, 306 days
30	Jean Chabbert	December 31, 1920	June 29, 1947	July 7, 1967	France	7009297686880000000♠94 years, 121 days
31	George Hamilton Pearce	January 9, 1921	February 3, 1947	June 29, 1956	United States	7009297609120000000♠94 years, 112 days
32	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico	7009297410400000000♠94 years, 89 days
33	José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco	March 30, 1921	March 27, 1948	July 25, 1965	Mexico	7009296917920000000♠94 years, 32 days
34	Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González	April 16, 1921	July 15, 1945	March 19, 1962	Argentina/ Uruguay	7009296771040000000♠94 years, 15 days
35	Boleslaw Pylak	August 20, 1921	June 29, 1948	May 29, 1966	Poland	7009295680240000000♠93 years, 254 days
36	Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen	August 21, 1921	June 1, 1946	August 30, 1962	United States	7009295671600000000♠93 years, 253 days
37	Paul-Marie François Rousset	August 27, 1921	February 24, 1945	March 6, 1966	France	7009295619760000000♠93 years, 247 days
38	Linus Nirmal Gomes	September 7, 1921	November 21, 1954	November 19, 1977	India	7009295524720000000♠93 years, 236 days
39	Francis Quinn	September 11, 1921	June 15, 1946	June 29, 1978	United States	7009295490160000000♠93 years, 232 days
40	Odore Joseph Gendron	September 13, 1921	May 31, 1947	February 3, 1975	United States	7009295472880000000♠93 years, 230 days
41	Paulo Evaristo Arns	September 14, 1921	November 30, 1945	July 3, 1966	Brazil	7009295464240000000♠93 years, 229 days
42	Jacques Landriault	September 23, 1921	February 9, 1947	July 25, 1962	Canada	7009295386480000000♠93 years, 220 days
43	Girolamo Prigione	October 12, 1921	May 18, 1944	November 24, 1968	Italy	7009295222320000000♠93 years, 201 days
44	József Szendi	October 31, 1921	December 24, 1944	April 21, 1982	Hungary	7009295058160000000♠93 years, 182 days
45	Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff	November 30, 1921	March 15, 1953	September 10, 1972	Netherlands	7009294798960000000♠93 years, 152 days
46	Carlo Furno	December 2, 1921	June 25, 1944	September 16, 1973	Italy	7009294781680000000♠93 years, 150 days
47	Ignazio Cannavò	December 12, 1921	November 5, 1944	December 13, 1970	Italy	7009294695280000000♠93 years, 140 days
	Salvatore Cassisa	December 12, 1921	September 3, 1944	January 24, 1974	Italy	7009294695280000000♠93 years, 140 days
49	Paul Hisao Yasuda	December 20, 1921	May 21, 1955	March 21, 1970	Japan	7009294626160000000♠93 years, 132 days
50	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico	7009294522480000000♠93 years, 120 days
51	Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez	January 17, 1922	March 22, 1947	June 21, 1960	Mexico	7009294384240000000♠93 years, 104 days
52	Jožef Smej	February 15, 1922	December 8, 1944	May 23, 1983	Slovenia	7009294133680000000♠93 years, 75 days
53	Louis Anthony DeSimone	February 21, 1922	May 10, 1952	August 12, 1981	United States	7009294081840000000♠93 years, 69 days
54	Hilarion Capucci	March 2, 1922	July 20, 1947	September 5, 1965	Syria	7009294004080000000♠93 years, 60 days
55	Luigi Barbarito	April 19, 1922	August 20, 1944	August 10, 1969	Italy	7009293589360000000♠93 years, 12 days
56	Dante Bernini	April 20, 1922	August 12, 1945	December 8, 1971	Italy	7009293580720000000♠93 years, 11 days
57	Antun Bogetić	April 24, 1922	June 29, 1946	April 28, 1984	Croatia	7009293546160000000♠93 years, 7 days
58	Georges Marie Martin Cottier	April 25, 1922	July 2, 1951	October 20, 2003	Switzerland	7009293537520000000♠93 years, 6 days
59	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini	May 4, 1922	August 12, 1945	April 25, 1983	Italy	7009293457600000000♠92 years, 362 days
60	Federico O. Escaler	June 28, 1922	June 19, 1954	July 31, 1976	Philippines	7009292982400000000♠92 years, 307 days
61	Gilberto Agustoni	July 26, 1922	April 20, 1946	January 6, 1987	Switzerland	7009292740480000000♠92 years, 279 days
62	Roger Etchegaray	September 25, 1922	July 13, 1947	May 27, 1969	France	7009292213440000000♠92 years, 218 days
63	Abraham D. Mattam	November 21, 1922	March 15, 1950	April 30, 1977	India	7009291720960000000♠92 years, 161 days
64	Miguel Esteban Hesayne	December 26, 1922	December 12, 1948	June 4, 1975	Argentina	7009291418560000000♠92 years, 126 days
65	Alberto Iniesta Jiménez	January 4, 1923	July 13, 1958	October 22, 1972	Spain	7009291340800000000♠92 years, 117 days
66	Antonio Riboldi	January 16, 1923	June 29, 1951	March 11, 1978	Italy	7009291237120000000♠92 years, 105 days
67	Chucrallah Harb	May 5, 1923	June 19, 1949	May 14, 1967	Lebanon	7009290293200000000♠91 years, 361 days
68	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy	7009290284560000000♠91 years, 360 days
69	Daniel Kucera	May 7, 1923	May 26, 1949	July 21, 1977	United States	7009290275920000000♠91 years, 359 days
70	Georges Abi-Saber	May 12, 1923	July 16, 1952	November 12, 1977	Syria	7009290232720000000♠91 years, 354 days
71	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States	7009289990800000000♠91 years, 326 days
72	Conrado Walter	June 19, 1923	December 2, 1956	February 2, 1978	Brazil	7009289904400000000♠91 years, 316 days
73	Albert Vanhoye	July 23, 1923	July 25, 1954	-----------	France	7009289610640000000♠91 years, 282 days
74	Andrea Veggio	August 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	September 8, 1983	Italy	7009289290960000000♠91 years, 245 days
75	Joseph Lawson Howze	August 30, 1923	May 7, 1959	January 28, 1973	United States	7009289282320000000♠91 years, 244 days
76	Moisés Julio Blanchoud	September 4, 1923	December 14, 1947	April 24, 1960	Argentina	7009289239120000000♠91 years, 239 days
77	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain	7009289221840000000♠91 years, 237 days
	Maximilian Ziegelbauer	September 6, 1923	May 21, 1950	October 22, 1983	Germany	7009289221840000000♠91 years, 237 days
79	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy	7009289031760000000♠91 years, 215 days
80	Henryk Gulbinowicz	October 17, 1923	June 18, 1950	February 8, 1970	Poland	7009288867600000000♠91 years, 196 days
81	Antonio Troyo Calderón	October 18, 1923	November 30, 1947	September 21, 1979	Costa Rica	7009288858960000000♠91 years, 195 days
82	Achille Silvestrini	October 25, 1923	July 13, 1946	May 27, 1979	Italy	7009288798480000000♠91 years, 188 days
83	Newton Holanda Gurgel	November 1, 1923	December 17, 1949	May 27, 1979	Brazil	7009288738000000000♠91 years, 181 days
84	Giovanni Moretti	November 20, 1923	June 28, 1947	October 24, 1971	Italy	7009288573840000000♠91 years, 162 days
85	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy	7009288522000000000♠91 years, 156 days
86	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy	7009288496080000000♠91 years, 153 days
87	Manuel Vieira Pinto	December 8, 1923	August 7, 1949	June 29, 1967	Mozambique	7009288418320000000♠91 years, 144 days
88	Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt	December 9, 1923	June 29, 1948	September 18, 1971	France	7009288409680000000♠91 years, 143 days
89	Luis Alberto Luna Tobar	December 15, 1923	June 23, 1946	September 18, 1977	Ecuador	7009288357840000000♠91 years, 137 days
90	John C. O'Riordan	January 6, 1924	June 29, 1952	December 2, 1984	Ireland	7009288167760000000♠91 years, 115 days
91	Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau	January 10, 1924	June 28, 1947	April 22, 1979	France	7009288133200000000♠91 years, 111 days
92	Léon-Raymond Soulier	January 13, 1924	September 7, 1947	September 12, 1971	France	7009288107280000000♠91 years, 108 days
93	Ján Chryzostom Korec	January 22, 1924	October 1, 1950	August 24, 1951	Slovakia	7009288029520000000♠91 years, 99 days
94	Stanisław Szymecki	January 26, 1924	July 3, 1947	April 12, 1981	Poland	7009287994960000000♠91 years, 95 days
95	Silvano Piovanelli	February 21, 1924	July 13, 1947	June 24, 1982	Italy	7009287770320000000♠91 years, 69 days
96	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada	7009287744400000000♠91 years, 66 days
97	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia	7009287614800000000♠91 years, 51 days
98	Urbano José Allgayer	March 16, 1924	December 10, 1950	March 24, 1974	Brazil	7009287571600000000♠91 years, 46 days
99	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos	March 18, 1924	June 25, 1953	March 9, 1975	Mozambique	7009287554320000000♠91 years, 44 days
100	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan	7009287442000000000♠91 years, 31 days

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