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).

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	7009319448880000000♠101 years, 83 days
2	Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia	October 17, 1915	June 27, 1943	January 30, 1964	Spain	7009319232880000000♠101 years, 58 days
3	Albert Malbois	November 17, 1915	June 29, 1938	April 22, 1961	France	7009318965040000000♠101 years, 27 days
4	Damián Iguacén Borau	February 12, 1916	June 7, 1941	October 11, 1970	Spain	7009318219840000000♠100 years, 306 days
5	Giovanni Benedetti	March 12, 1917	May 26, 1940	January 23, 1975	Italy	7009314813520000000♠99 years, 277 days
6	Hubertus Ernst	April 8, 1917	June 7, 1941	December 17, 1967	Netherlands	7009314580240000000♠99 years, 250 days
7	Gérard Tremblay	October 27, 1918	June 16, 1946	May 22, 1981	Canada	7009309679200000000♠98 years, 48 days
8	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	February 18, 1919	December 14, 1941	August 28, 1955	Colombia	7009308700720000000♠97 years, 300 days
9	José Maria Pires	March 15, 1919	December 20, 1941	September 22, 1957	Brazil	7009308476080000000♠97 years, 274 days
10	Gérard Dionne	June 19, 1919	May 1, 1948	April 8, 1975	Canada	7009307646640000000♠97 years, 178 days
11	Martin Nicholas Lohmuller	August 21, 1919	June 3, 1944	April 2, 1970	United States	7009307102320000000♠97 years, 115 days
12	Aldo Mongiano	November 1, 1919	June 3, 1943	October 5, 1975	Italy	7009306480240000000♠97 years, 43 days
13	Georges-Hilaire Dupont	November 16, 1919	May 9, 1943	May 1, 1964	France	7009306350640000000♠97 years, 28 days
14	Andrés Sapelak	December 13, 1919	June 29, 1949	October 15, 1961	Argentina/ Ukraine	7009306117360000000♠97 years, 1 day
15	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada	7009305285760000000♠96 years, 270 days
16	Antônio Afonso de Miranda	April 14, 1920	November 1, 1945	December 27, 1971	Brazil	7009305061120000000♠96 years, 244 days
17	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	May 15, 1920	May 7, 1950	July 16, 1961	Lebanon	7009304793280000000♠96 years, 213 days
18	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico	7009302536080000000♠95 years, 317 days
19	José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco	March 30, 1921	March 27, 1948	July 25, 1965	Mexico	7009302034960000000♠95 years, 259 days
20	Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González	April 16, 1921	July 15, 1945	March 19, 1962	Argentina/ Uruguay	7009301888080000000♠95 years, 242 days
21	Boleslaw Pylak	August 20, 1921	June 29, 1948	May 29, 1966	Poland	7009300799440000000♠95 years, 116 days
22	Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen	August 21, 1921	June 1, 1946	August 30, 1962	United States	7009300790800000000♠95 years, 115 days
23	Linus Nirmal Gomes	September 7, 1921	November 21, 1954	November 19, 1977	India	7009300643920000000♠95 years, 98 days
24	Francis Quinn	September 11, 1921	June 15, 1946	June 29, 1978	United States	7009300609360000000♠95 years, 94 days
25	Odore Joseph Gendron	September 13, 1921	May 31, 1947	February 3, 1975	United States	7009300592080000000♠95 years, 92 days
26	Paulo Evaristo Arns	September 14, 1921	November 30, 1945	July 3, 1966	Brazil	7009300583440000000♠95 years, 91 days
27	Jacques Landriault	September 23, 1921	February 9, 1947	July 25, 1962	Canada	7009300505680000000♠95 years, 82 days
28	József Szendi	October 31, 1921	December 24, 1944	April 21, 1982	Hungary	7009300177360000000♠95 years, 44 days
29	Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff	November 30, 1921	March 15, 1953	September 10, 1972	Netherlands	7009299918160000000♠95 years, 14 days
30	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico	7009299648160000000♠94 years, 348 days
31	Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez	January 17, 1922	March 22, 1947	June 21, 1960	Mexico	7009299509920000000♠94 years, 332 days
32	Jožef Smej	February 15, 1922	December 8, 1944	May 23, 1983	Slovenia	7009299259360000000♠94 years, 303 days
33	Louis Anthony DeSimone	February 21, 1922	May 10, 1952	August 12, 1981	United States	7009299207520000000♠94 years, 297 days
34	Hilarion Capucci	March 2, 1922	July 20, 1947	September 5, 1965	Syria	7009299121120000000♠94 years, 287 days
35	Luigi Barbarito	April 19, 1922	August 20, 1944	August 10, 1969	Italy	7009298706400000000♠94 years, 239 days
36	Dante Bernini	April 20, 1922	August 12, 1945	December 8, 1971	Italy	7009298697760000000♠94 years, 238 days
37	Antun Bogetić	April 24, 1922	June 29, 1946	April 28, 1984	Croatia	7009298663200000000♠94 years, 234 days
38	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini	May 4, 1922	August 12, 1945	April 25, 1983	Italy	7009298576800000000♠94 years, 224 days
39	Gilberto Agustoni	July 26, 1922	April 20, 1946	January 6, 1987	Switzerland	7009297859680000000♠94 years, 141 days
40	Roger Etchegaray	September 25, 1922	July 13, 1947	May 27, 1969	France	7009297332640000000♠94 years, 80 days
41	Abraham D. Mattam	November 21, 1922	March 15, 1950	April 30, 1977	India	7009296840160000000♠94 years, 23 days
42	Miguel Esteban Hesayne	December 26, 1922	December 12, 1948	June 4, 1975	Argentina	7009296544240000000♠93 years, 354 days
43	Antonio Riboldi	January 16, 1923	June 29, 1951	March 11, 1978	Italy	7009296362800000000♠93 years, 333 days
44	Chucrallah Harb	May 5, 1923	June 19, 1949	May 14, 1967	Lebanon	7009295412400000000♠93 years, 223 days
45	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy	7009295403760000000♠93 years, 222 days
46	Daniel Kucera	May 7, 1923	May 26, 1949	July 21, 1977	United States	7009295395120000000♠93 years, 221 days
47	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States	7009295110000000000♠93 years, 188 days
48	Conrado Walter	June 19, 1923	December 2, 1956	February 2, 1978	Germany	7009295023600000000♠93 years, 178 days
49	Albert Vanhoye	July 23, 1923	July 25, 1954	-----------	France	7009294729840000000♠93 years, 144 days
50	Andrea Veggio	August 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	September 8, 1983	Italy	7009294410160000000♠93 years, 107 days
51	Joseph Lawson Howze	August 30, 1923	May 7, 1959	January 28, 1973	United States	7009294401520000000♠93 years, 106 days
52	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain	7009294341040000000♠93 years, 99 days
53	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy	7009294150960000000♠93 years, 77 days
54	Henryk Gulbinowicz	October 17, 1923	June 18, 1950	February 8, 1970	Poland	7009293986800000000♠93 years, 58 days
55	Achille Silvestrini	October 25, 1923	July 13, 1946	May 27, 1979	Italy	7009293917680000000♠93 years, 50 days
56	Newton Holanda Gurgel	November 1, 1923	December 17, 1949	May 27, 1979	Brazil	7009293857200000000♠93 years, 43 days
57	Giovanni Moretti	November 20, 1923	June 28, 1947	October 24, 1971	Italy	7009293693040000000♠93 years, 24 days
58	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy	7009293641200000000♠93 years, 18 days
59	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy	7009293615280000000♠93 years, 15 days
60	Manuel Vieira Pinto	December 8, 1923	August 7, 1949	June 29, 1967	Mozambique	7009293537520000000♠93 years, 6 days
61	Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt	December 9, 1923	June 29, 1948	September 18, 1971	France	7009293528880000000♠93 years, 5 days
62	Luis Alberto Luna Tobar	December 15, 1923	June 23, 1946	September 18, 1977	Ecuador	7009293483520000000♠92 years, 365 days
63	Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau	January 10, 1924	June 28, 1947	April 22, 1979	France	7009293258880000000♠92 years, 339 days
64	Léon-Raymond Soulier	January 13, 1924	September 7, 1947	September 12, 1971	France	7009293232960000000♠92 years, 336 days
65	Stanisław Szymecki	January 26, 1924	July 3, 1947	April 12, 1981	Poland	7009293120640000000♠92 years, 323 days
66	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada	7009292870080000000♠92 years, 294 days
67	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia	7009292731840000000♠92 years, 278 days
68	Urbano José Allgayer	March 16, 1924	December 10, 1950	March 24, 1974	Brazil	7009292688640000000♠92 years, 273 days
69	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos	March 18, 1924	June 25, 1953	March 9, 1975	Mozambique	7009292671360000000♠92 years, 271 days
70	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan	7009292559040000000♠92 years, 258 days
71	Carmelo Cassati	April 6, 1924	December 17, 1949	June 28, 1970	Italy	7009292507200000000♠92 years, 252 days
72	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	April 7, 1924	March 10, 1955	May 25, 1979	Philippines	7009292498560000000♠92 years, 251 days
73	Joseph Neil MacNeil	April 15, 1924	May 23, 1948	June 24, 1969	Canada	7009292429440000000♠92 years, 243 days
74	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy	7009292213440000000♠92 years, 218 days
75	Yves-Marie-Henri Bescond	May 19, 1924	June 29, 1949	March 28, 1971	France	7009292135680000000♠92 years, 209 days
76	Colin Cameron Davies	June 10, 1924	July 13, 1952	February 27, 1977	Spain	7009291945600000000♠92 years, 187 days
77	Edward Cassidy	July 5, 1924	July 23, 1949	November 15, 1970	Australia	7009291729600000000♠92 years, 162 days
78	Daniel Alphonse Omer Verstraete	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa	7009291504960000000♠92 years, 136 days
79	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	August 13, 1924	March 12, 1949	May 7, 1959	Brazil	7009291392640000000♠92 years, 123 days
80	Fulgence Werner Le Roy	August 23, 1924	September 22, 1947	September 14, 1975	South Africa	7009291306240000000♠92 years, 113 days
81	Nicolas M. Mondejar	September 15, 1924	April 4, 1953	August 30, 1970	Philippines	7009291107520000000♠92 years, 90 days
82	Alphonsus Liguori Penney	September 17, 1924	June 29, 1949	January 17, 1973	Canada	7009291090240000000♠92 years, 88 days
83	Rosario Mazzola	September 19, 1924	June 16, 1950	September 4, 1982	Italy	7009291072960000000♠92 years, 86 days
84	Stephen Sulyk	October 1, 1924	June 14, 1952	March 1, 1981	United States	7009290969280000000♠92 years, 74 days
85	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	October 3, 1924	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	Brazil	7009290952000000000♠92 years, 72 days
86	Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa Berrones	October 7, 1924	October 9, 1949	April 5, 1974	Mexico	7009290917440000000♠92 years, 68 days
87	Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau	November 2, 1924	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	Belgium	7009290692800000000♠92 years, 42 days
88	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	November 7, 1924	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	Spain	7009290649600000000♠92 years, 37 days
89	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	November 8, 1924	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	South Korea	7009290640960000000♠92 years, 36 days
90	John Aloysius O'Mara	November 17, 1924	June 1, 1951	June 29, 1976	United States	7009290563200000000♠92 years, 27 days
91	Savino Bernardo Maria Cazzaro Bertollo	November 28, 1924	April 16, 1949	February 13, 1964	Italy	7009290468160000000♠92 years, 16 days
92	Gaetano Bonicelli	December 13, 1924	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	Italy	7009290338560000000♠92 years, 1 day
93	Cesar C. Raval	December 17, 1924	May 22, 1952	February 18, 1982	Philippines	7009290310480000000♠91 years, 363 days
94	Paulinus Antanas Baltakis	January 1, 1925	August 24, 1952	September 14, 1984	Lithuania	7009290180880000000♠91 years, 348 days
95	Dante Frasnelli Tarter	January 6, 1925	July 6, 1952	November 1, 1967	Peru	7009290137680000000♠91 years, 343 days
96	Georges Marcel Émile Nicolas Perron	January 12, 1925	June 29, 1951	March 14, 1993	France	7009290085840000000♠91 years, 337 days
97	Matthew Kia Yen-wen	January 17, 1925	July 15, 1951	July 16, 1970	Taiwan	7009290042640000000♠91 years, 332 days
98	Luciano José Cabral Duarte	January 21, 1925	January 18, 1948	October 2, 1966	Brazil	7009290008080000000♠91 years, 328 days
	Štefan Vrablec	January 21, 1925	December 23, 1950	July 26, 1998	Slovakia	7009290008080000000♠91 years, 328 days
100	Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa	February 7, 1925	March 26, 1950	October 16, 1983	Italy	7009289861200000000♠91 years, 311 days

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