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 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	7009326857680000000♠103 years, 210 days
2	Jan van Cauwelaert	April 12, 1914	August 6, 1939	March 25, 1954	Belgium	7009321392880000000♠101 years, 308 days
3	Bernardino Piñera	September 22, 1915	April 5, 1947	April 27, 1958	Chile	7009316828800000000♠100 years, 145 days
4	Loris Francesco Capovilla	October 14, 1915	May 23, 1940	July 16, 1967	Italy	7009316638720000000♠100 years, 123 days
5	Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia	October 17, 1915	June 27, 1943	January 30, 1964	Spain	7009316612800000000♠100 years, 120 days
6	Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol	October 19, 1915	August 10, 1940	February 25, 1964	Netherlands	7009316595520000000♠100 years, 118 days
7	Albert Malbois	November 17, 1915	June 29, 1938	April 22, 1961	France	7009316344960000000♠100 years, 89 days
8	Damián Iguacén Borau	February 12, 1916	June 7, 1941	October 11, 1970	Spain	7009315593280000000♠100 years, 2 days
9	Giovanni Benedetti	March 12, 1917	May 26, 1940	January 23, 1975	Italy	7009312193440000000♠98 years, 339 days
10	Hubertus Ernst	April 8, 1917	June 7, 1941	December 17, 1967	Netherlands	7009311960160000000♠98 years, 312 days
11	Vincenzo Franco	June 1, 1917	July 6, 1947	January 26, 1975	Italy	7009311493600000000♠98 years, 258 days
12	Gérard Tremblay	October 27, 1918	June 16, 1946	May 22, 1981	Canada	7009307059120000000♠97 years, 110 days
13	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	February 18, 1919	December 14, 1941	August 28, 1955	Colombia	7009306072000000000♠96 years, 361 days
14	Gregorio Garavito Jiménez	March 9, 1919	July 24, 1942	February 11, 1962	Colombia	7009305907840000000♠96 years, 342 days
15	José Maria Pires	March 15, 1919	December 20, 1941	September 22, 1957	Brazil	7009305856000000000♠96 years, 336 days
16	Myles McKeon	April 3, 1919	June 22, 1947	September 12, 1962	Australia	7009305691840000000♠96 years, 317 days
17	Hovhannes Tcholakian	April 12, 1919	April 25, 1943	March 5, 1967	Turkey	7009305614080000000♠96 years, 308 days
18	Gérard Dionne	June 19, 1919	May 1, 1948	April 8, 1975	Canada	7009305026560000000♠96 years, 240 days
19	Martin Nicholas Lohmuller	August 21, 1919	June 3, 1944	April 2, 1970	United States	7009304482240000000♠96 years, 177 days
20	Aldo Mongiano	November 1, 1919	June 3, 1943	October 5, 1975	Italy	7009303860160000000♠96 years, 105 days
21	Georges-Hilaire Dupont	November 16, 1919	May 9, 1943	May 1, 1964	France	7009303730560000000♠96 years, 90 days
22	Andrés Sapelak	December 13, 1919	June 29, 1949	October 15, 1961	Argentina/ Ukraine	7009303497280000000♠96 years, 63 days
23	Carlos Quintero Arce	February 13, 1920	April 8, 1944	May 14, 1961	Mexico	7009302961600000000♠96 years, 1 day
24	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada	7009302665680000000♠95 years, 332 days
25	Antônio Afonso de Miranda	April 14, 1920	November 1, 1945	December 27, 1971	Brazil	7009302441040000000♠95 years, 306 days
26	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	May 15, 1920	May 7, 1950	July 16, 1961	Lebanon	7009302173200000000♠95 years, 275 days
27	Odo Fusi Pecci	June 29, 1920	December 19, 1942	August 29, 1971	Italy	7009301784400000000♠95 years, 230 days
28	Jean Chabbert	December 31, 1920	June 29, 1947	July 7, 1967	France	7009300186000000000♠95 years, 45 days
29	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico	7009299909520000000♠95 years, 13 days
30	José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco	March 30, 1921	March 27, 1948	July 25, 1965	Mexico	7009299414880000000♠94 years, 321 days
31	Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González	April 16, 1921	July 15, 1945	March 19, 1962	Argentina/ Uruguay	7009299268000000000♠94 years, 304 days
32	Boleslaw Pylak	August 20, 1921	June 29, 1948	May 29, 1966	Poland	7009298179360000000♠94 years, 178 days
33	Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen	August 21, 1921	June 1, 1946	August 30, 1962	United States	7009298170720000000♠94 years, 177 days
34	Linus Nirmal Gomes	September 7, 1921	November 21, 1954	November 19, 1977	India	7009298023840000000♠94 years, 160 days
35	Francis Quinn	September 11, 1921	June 15, 1946	June 29, 1978	United States	7009297989280000000♠94 years, 156 days
36	Odore Joseph Gendron	September 13, 1921	May 31, 1947	February 3, 1975	United States	7009297972000000000♠94 years, 154 days
37	Paulo Evaristo Arns	September 14, 1921	November 30, 1945	July 3, 1966	Brazil	7009297963360000000♠94 years, 153 days
38	Jacques Landriault	September 23, 1921	February 9, 1947	July 25, 1962	Canada	7009297885600000000♠94 years, 144 days
39	Girolamo Prigione	October 12, 1921	May 18, 1944	November 24, 1968	Italy	7009297721440000000♠94 years, 125 days
40	József Szendi	October 31, 1921	December 24, 1944	April 21, 1982	Hungary	7009297557280000000♠94 years, 106 days
41	Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff	November 30, 1921	March 15, 1953	September 10, 1972	Netherlands	7009297298080000000♠94 years, 76 days
42	Paul Hisao Yasuda	December 20, 1921	May 21, 1955	March 21, 1970	Japan	7009297125280000000♠94 years, 56 days
43	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico	7009297021600000000♠94 years, 44 days
44	Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez	January 17, 1922	March 22, 1947	June 21, 1960	Mexico	7009296883360000000♠94 years, 28 days
45	Jožef Smej	February 15, 1922	December 8, 1944	May 23, 1983	Slovenia	7009296630640000000♠93 years, 364 days
46	Louis Anthony DeSimone	February 21, 1922	May 10, 1952	August 12, 1981	United States	7009296578800000000♠93 years, 358 days
47	Hilarion Capucci	March 2, 1922	July 20, 1947	September 5, 1965	Syria	7009296501040000000♠93 years, 349 days
48	Luigi Barbarito	April 19, 1922	August 20, 1944	August 10, 1969	Italy	7009296086320000000♠93 years, 301 days
49	Dante Bernini	April 20, 1922	August 12, 1945	December 8, 1971	Italy	7009296077680000000♠93 years, 300 days
50	Antun Bogetić	April 24, 1922	June 29, 1946	April 28, 1984	Croatia	7009296043120000000♠93 years, 296 days
51	Georges Marie Martin Cottier	April 25, 1922	July 2, 1951	October 20, 2003	Switzerland	7009296034480000000♠93 years, 295 days
52	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini	May 4, 1922	August 12, 1945	April 25, 1983	Italy	7009295956720000000♠93 years, 286 days
53	Gilberto Agustoni	July 26, 1922	April 20, 1946	January 6, 1987	Switzerland	7009295239600000000♠93 years, 203 days
54	Roger Etchegaray	September 25, 1922	July 13, 1947	May 27, 1969	France	7009294712560000000♠93 years, 142 days
55	Abraham D. Mattam	November 21, 1922	March 15, 1950	April 30, 1977	India	7009294220080000000♠93 years, 85 days
55	Miguel Esteban Hesayne	December 26, 1922	December 12, 1948	June 4, 1975	Argentina	7009293917680000000♠93 years, 50 days
57	Antonio Riboldi	January 16, 1923	June 29, 1951	March 11, 1978	Italy	7009293736240000000♠93 years, 29 days
58	Chucrallah Harb	May 5, 1923	June 19, 1949	May 14, 1967	Lebanon	7009292792320000000♠92 years, 285 days
59	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy	7009292783680000000♠92 years, 284 days
60	Daniel Kucera	May 7, 1923	May 26, 1949	July 21, 1977	United States	7009292775040000000♠92 years, 283 days
61	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States	7009292489920000000♠92 years, 250 days
62	Conrado Walter	June 19, 1923	December 2, 1956	February 2, 1978	Brazil	7009292403520000000♠92 years, 240 days
63	Albert Vanhoye	July 23, 1923	July 25, 1954	-----------	France	7009292109760000000♠92 years, 206 days
64	Andrea Veggio	August 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	September 8, 1983	Italy	7009291790080000000♠92 years, 169 days
65	Joseph Lawson Howze	August 30, 1923	May 7, 1959	January 28, 1973	United States	7009291781440000000♠92 years, 168 days
66	Moisés Julio Blanchoud	September 4, 1923	December 14, 1947	April 24, 1960	Argentina	7009291738240000000♠92 years, 163 days
67	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain	7009291720960000000♠92 years, 161 days
	Maximilian Ziegelbauer	September 6, 1923	May 21, 1950	October 22, 1983	Germany	7009291720960000000♠92 years, 161 days
69	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy	7009291530880000000♠92 years, 139 days
70	Henryk Gulbinowicz	October 17, 1923	June 18, 1950	February 8, 1970	Poland	7009291366720000000♠92 years, 120 days
71	Achille Silvestrini	October 25, 1923	July 13, 1946	May 27, 1979	Italy	7009291297600000000♠92 years, 112 days
72	Newton Holanda Gurgel	November 1, 1923	December 17, 1949	May 27, 1979	Brazil	7009291237120000000♠92 years, 105 days
73	Giovanni Moretti	November 20, 1923	June 28, 1947	October 24, 1971	Italy	7009291072960000000♠92 years, 86 days
74	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy	7009291021120000000♠92 years, 80 days
75	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy	7009290995200000000♠92 years, 77 days
76	Manuel Vieira Pinto	December 8, 1923	August 7, 1949	June 29, 1967	Mozambique	7009290917440000000♠92 years, 68 days
77	Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt	December 9, 1923	June 29, 1948	September 18, 1971	France	7009290908800000000♠92 years, 67 days
78	Luis Alberto Luna Tobar	December 15, 1923	June 23, 1946	September 18, 1977	Ecuador	7009290856960000000♠92 years, 61 days
79	John C. O'Riordan	January 6, 1924	June 29, 1952	December 2, 1984	Ireland	7009290666880000000♠92 years, 39 days
80	Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau	January 10, 1924	June 28, 1947	April 22, 1979	France	7009290632320000000♠92 years, 35 days
81	Léon-Raymond Soulier	January 13, 1924	September 7, 1947	September 12, 1971	France	7009290606400000000♠92 years, 32 days
82	Stanisław Szymecki	January 26, 1924	July 3, 1947	April 12, 1981	Poland	7009290494080000000♠92 years, 19 days
83	Silvano Piovanelli	February 21, 1924	July 13, 1947	June 24, 1982	Italy	7009290267280000000♠91 years, 358 days
84	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada	7009290241360000000♠91 years, 355 days
85	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia	7009290111760000000♠91 years, 340 days
86	Urbano José Allgayer	March 16, 1924	December 10, 1950	March 24, 1974	Brazil	7009290068560000000♠91 years, 335 days
87	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos	March 18, 1924	June 25, 1953	March 9, 1975	Mozambique	7009290051280000000♠91 years, 333 days
88	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan	7009289938960000000♠91 years, 320 days
89	Carmelo Cassati	April 6, 1924	December 17, 1949	June 28, 1970	Italy	7009289887120000000♠91 years, 314 days
90	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	April 7, 1924	March 10, 1955	May 25, 1979	Philippines	7009289878480000000♠91 years, 313 days
91	Joseph Neil MacNeil	April 15, 1924	May 23, 1948	June 24, 1969	Canada	7009289809360000000♠91 years, 305 days
92	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy	7009289593360000000♠91 years, 280 days
93	Yves-Marie-Henri Bescond	May 19, 1924	June 29, 1949	March 28, 1971	France	7009289515600000000♠91 years, 271 days
94	James Martin Hayes	May 27, 1924	June 15, 1947	April 20, 1965	Canada	7009289446480000000♠91 years, 263 days
95	Colin Cameron Davies	June 10, 1924	July 13, 1952	February 27, 1977	Spain	7009289325520000000♠91 years, 249 days
96	Edward Cassidy	July 5, 1924	July 23, 1949	November 15, 1970	Australia	7009289109520000000♠91 years, 224 days
97	Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa	July 8, 1924	October 6, 1949	March 25, 1976	Portugal	7009289083600000000♠91 years, 221 days
98	Daniel Alphonse Omer Verstraete	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa	7009288884880000000♠91 years, 198 days
99	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	August 13, 1924	March 12, 1949	May 7, 1959	Brazil	7009288772560000000♠91 years, 185 days
100	Fulgence Werner Le Roy	August 23, 1924	September 22, 1947	September 14, 1975	South Africa	7009288686160000000♠91 years, 175 days

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