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 83 bishops and 17 cardinals (16 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	7004376490000000000♠103 years, 28 days
2	Damián Iguacén Borau	February 12, 1916	June 7, 1941	October 11, 1970	Spain	7004375060000000000♠102 years, 250 days
3	Gérard Tremblay	October 27, 1918	June 16, 1946	May 22, 1981	Canada	7004365180000000000♠99 years, 358 days
4	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	February 18, 1919	December 14, 1941	August 28, 1955	Colombia	7004364040000000000♠99 years, 244 days
5	Gérard Dionne	June 19, 1919	May 1, 1948	April 8, 1975	Canada	7004362830000000000♠99 years, 123 days
6	Aldo Mongiano	November 1, 1919	June 3, 1943	October 5, 1975	Italy/ Brazil	7004361480000000000♠98 years, 353 days
7	Georges-Hilaire Dupont	November 16, 1919	May 9, 1943	May 1, 1964	France	7004361330000000000♠98 years, 338 days
8	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada	7004360090000000000♠98 years, 215 days
9	Antônio Afonso de Miranda	April 14, 1920	November 1, 1945	December 27, 1971	Brazil	7004359830000000000♠98 years, 189 days
10	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	May 15, 1920	May 7, 1950	July 16, 1961	Lebanon	7004359520000000000♠98 years, 158 days
11	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico	7004356900000000000♠97 years, 261 days
12	Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González	April 16, 1921	July 15, 1945	March 19, 1962	Argentina/ Uruguay	7004356160000000000♠97 years, 187 days
13	Boleslaw Pylak	August 20, 1921	June 29, 1948	May 29, 1966	Poland	7004354900000000000♠97 years, 61 days
14	Linus Nirmal Gomes	September 7, 1921	November 21, 1954	November 19, 1977	India	7004354720000000000♠97 years, 43 days
15	Francis Quinn	September 11, 1921	June 15, 1946	June 29, 1978	United States	7004354680000000000♠97 years, 39 days
16	Odore Joseph Gendron	September 13, 1921	May 31, 1947	February 3, 1975	United States	7004354660000000000♠97 years, 37 days
17	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico	7004353560000000000♠96 years, 292 days
18	Jožef Smej	February 15, 1922	December 8, 1944	May 23, 1983	Slovenia	7004353110000000000♠96 years, 247 days
19	Dante Bernini	April 20, 1922	August 12, 1945	December 8, 1971	Italy	7004352470000000000♠96 years, 183 days
20	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini	May 4, 1922	August 12, 1945	April 25, 1983	Italy	7004352330000000000♠96 years, 169 days
21	Roger Etchegaray	September 25, 1922	July 13, 1947	May 27, 1969	France	7004350890000000000♠96 years, 25 days
22	Abraham D. Mattam	November 21, 1922	March 15, 1950	April 30, 1977	India	7004350320000000000♠95 years, 333 days
23	Miguel Esteban Hesayne	December 26, 1922	December 12, 1948	June 4, 1975	Argentina	7004349970000000000♠95 years, 298 days
24	Chucrallah Harb	May 5, 1923	June 19, 1949	May 14, 1967	Lebanon	7004348670000000000♠95 years, 168 days
25	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy	7004348660000000000♠95 years, 167 days
26	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States	7004348320000000000♠95 years, 133 days
27	Albert Vanhoye	July 24, 1923	July 25, 1954	--	France	7004347870000000000♠95 years, 88 days
28	Andrea Veggio	August 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	September 8, 1983	Italy	7004347510000000000♠95 years, 52 days
29	Joseph Lawson Howze	August 30, 1923	May 7, 1959	January 28, 1973	United States	7004347500000000000♠95 years, 51 days
30	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain	7004347430000000000♠95 years, 44 days
31	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy	7004347210000000000♠95 years, 22 days
32	Henryk Gulbinowicz	October 17, 1923	June 18, 1950	February 8, 1970	Poland	7004347020000000000♠95 years, 3 days
33	Achille Silvestrini	October 25, 1923	July 13, 1946	May 27, 1979	Italy	7004346940000000000♠94 years, 360 days
34	Giovanni Moretti	November 20, 1923	June 28, 1947	October 24, 1971	Italy	7004346680000000000♠94 years, 334 days
35	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy	7004346620000000000♠94 years, 328 days
36	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy	7004346590000000000♠94 years, 325 days
37	Manuel Vieira Pinto	December 8, 1923	August 7, 1949	June 29, 1967	Mozambique	7004346500000000000♠94 years, 316 days
38	Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt	December 9, 1923	June 29, 1948	September 18, 1971	France	7004346490000000000♠94 years, 315 days
39	Stanisław Szymecki	January 26, 1924	July 3, 1947	April 12, 1981	Poland	7004346010000000000♠94 years, 267 days
40	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada	7004345720000000000♠94 years, 238 days
41	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia	7004345560000000000♠94 years, 223 days
42	Urbano José Allgayer	March 16, 1924	December 10, 1950	March 24, 1974	Brazil	7004345510000000000♠94 years, 218 days
43	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos	March 18, 1924	June 25, 1953	March 9, 1975	Mozambique	7004345490000000000♠94 years, 216 days
44	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan	7004345360000000000♠94 years, 203 days
45	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	April 7, 1924	March 10, 1955	May 25, 1979	Philippines	7004345290000000000♠94 years, 196 days
46	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy	7004344960000000000♠94 years, 163 days
47	Edward Cassidy	July 5, 1924	July 23, 1949	November 15, 1970	Australia	7004344400000000000♠94 years, 107 days
48	Daniel Alphonse Omer Verstraete	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa	7004344140000000000♠94 years, 81 days
49	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	August 13, 1924	March 12, 1949	May 7, 1959	Brazil	7004344010000000000♠94 years, 68 days
50	Nicolas M. Mondejar	September 15, 1924	April 4, 1953	August 30, 1970	Philippines	7004343680000000000♠94 years, 35 days
51	Rosario Mazzola	September 19, 1924	June 16, 1950	September 4, 1982	Italy	7004343640000000000♠94 years, 31 days
52	Stephen Sulyk	October 2, 1924	June 14, 1952	March 1, 1981	United States	7004343510000000000♠94 years, 18 days
53	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	October 3, 1924	December 5, 1948	November 6, 1966	Brazil	7004343500000000000♠94 years, 17 days
54	Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau	November 2, 1924	February 6, 1949	May 18, 1986	Belgium	7004343200000000000♠93 years, 352 days
55	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña	November 7, 1924	April 1, 1951	February 2, 1983	Spain	7004343150000000000♠93 years, 347 days
56	Victorinus Youn Kong-hi	November 8, 1924	March 20, 1950	October 20, 1963	South Korea	7004343140000000000♠93 years, 346 days
57	John Aloysius O'Mara	November 17, 1924	June 1, 1951	June 29, 1976	United States	7004343050000000000♠93 years, 337 days
58	Gaetano Bonicelli	December 13, 1924	May 22, 1948	August 26, 1975	Italy	7004342790000000000♠93 years, 311 days
59	Paulinus Antanas Baltakis	January 1, 1925	August 24, 1952	September 14, 1984	Lithuania	7004342600000000000♠93 years, 292 days
60	Dante Frasnelli Tarter	January 6, 1925	July 6, 1952	November 1, 1967	Peru	7004342550000000000♠93 years, 287 days
61	Georges Marcel Émile Nicolas Perron	January 12, 1925	June 29, 1951	March 14, 1993	France	7004342490000000000♠93 years, 281 days
62	Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa	February 7, 1925	March 26, 1950	October 16, 1983	Italy	7004342230000000000♠93 years, 255 days
63	Alexandre do Nascimento	March 1, 1925	December 20, 1952	August 31, 1975	Angola	7004342010000000000♠93 years, 233 days
64	Guy Alexis Herbulot	March 7, 1925	June 29, 1950	September 8, 1974	France	7004341950000000000♠93 years, 227 days
64	João Evangelista Martins Terra	March 7, 1925	December 22, 1956	November 20, 1988	Brazil	7004341950000000000♠93 years, 227 days
66	James Hector MacDonald	April 28, 1925	June 29, 1953	April 17, 1978	Canada	7004341430000000000♠93 years, 175 days
67	José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago	May 14, 1925	December 5, 1948	January 6, 1962	Brazil	7004341270000000000♠93 years, 159 days
68	Enzio d'Antonio	May 16, 1925	June 29, 1949	May 11, 1975	Italy	7004341250000000000♠93 years, 157 days
69	Ignatius Paul Pinto	May 18, 1925	August 24, 1952	January 31, 1989	India	7004341230000000000♠93 years, 155 days
70	Ernest Bertrand Boland	July 10, 1925	June 9, 1955	July 25, 1966	United States	7004340700000000000♠93 years, 102 days
71	Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand	July 11, 1925	October 10, 1948	September 14, 1975	France	7004340690000000000♠93 years, 101 days
72	Francisco Álvarez Martínez	July 14, 1925	June 11, 1950	June 3, 1973	Spain	7004340660000000000♠93 years, 98 days
73	Michael J. Cleary	September 1, 1925	June 29, 1952	March 25, 1981	Ireland	7004340170000000000♠93 years, 49 days
74	Patrick Leo McCartie	September 5, 1925	July 17, 1949	May 20, 1977	Great Britain	7004340130000000000♠93 years, 45 days
75	Joseph Gabriel Fernandez	September 16, 1925	March 19, 1949	May 14, 1978	India	7004340020000000000♠93 years, 34 days
76	Angelo Acerbi	September 23, 1925	March 27, 1948	June 30, 1974	Italy	7004339950000000000♠93 years, 27 days
76	Cândido Lorenzo González	September 23, 1925	June 6, 1954	March 19, 1970	Spain	7004339950000000000♠93 years, 27 days
78	Joseph Hitti	September 30, 1925	March 24, 1951	January 6, 1991	Lebanon	7004339880000000000♠93 years, 20 days
79	José Freire Falcão	October 23, 1925	June 19, 1949	June 28, 1988	Brazil	7004339650000000000♠92 years, 362 days
80	John J. Snyder	October 25, 1925	June 9, 1951	February 2, 1973	United States	7004339630000000000♠92 years, 360 days
81	Didier-Léon Marchand	November 1, 1925	May 19, 1951	November 5, 1978	France	7004339560000000000♠92 years, 353 days
81	Arturo Lona Reyes	November 1, 1925	August 15, 1952	August 15, 1971	Mexico	7004339560000000000♠92 years, 353 days
83	Jaime Mota de Farias	November 12, 1925	August 25, 1957	September 11, 1982	Brazil	7004339450000000000♠92 years, 342 days
84	Jacques de Saint-Blanquat	November 21, 1925	March 29, 1952	October 5, 1975	France	7004339360000000000♠92 years, 333 days
85	Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes	December 9, 1925	December 17, 1949	December 17, 1977	Guatemala	7004339180000000000♠92 years, 315 days
86	John R. Gorman	December 11, 1925	May 1, 1956	April 11, 1988	United States	7004339160000000000♠92 years, 313 days
87	Prosper Grech	December 24, 1925	March 25, 1950	February 8, 2012	Malta	7004339030000000000♠92 years, 300 days
88	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	January 1, 1926	June 27, 1954	October 15, 1972	Spain	7004338950000000000♠92 years, 292 days
89	John Michael Sherlock	January 20, 1926	June 3, 1950	August 28, 1974	Canada	7004338760000000000♠92 years, 273 days
90	Jacó Roberto Hilgert	January 27, 1926	November 30, 1952	September 26, 1976	Brazil	7004338690000000000♠92 years, 266 days
91	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	February 7, 1926	December 8, 1954	August 15, 1977	Argentina	7004338580000000000♠92 years, 255 days
92	Juan Rodolfo Laise	February 22, 1926	September 4, 1949	May 29, 1971	Argentina	7004338430000000000♠92 years, 240 days
93	Luigi de Magistris	February 23, 1926	April 12, 1952	April 28, 1996	Italy	7004338420000000000♠92 years, 239 days
94	Gabino Díaz Merchán	February 26, 1926	July 13, 1952	August 22, 1965	Spain	7004338390000000000♠92 years, 236 days
95	Helímenas de Jesús Rojo Paredes	April 22, 1926	July 8, 1950	May 18, 1980	Venezuela	7004337840000000000♠92 years, 181 days
96	Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia	April 27, 1926	September 21, 1957	December 27, 1966	Chile	92 years, 176 days
96	Franz Josef Kuhnle	April 27, 1926	July 20, 1952	November 27, 1976	Germany	7004337790000000000♠92 years, 176 days
98	Maurice Taylor	May 5, 1926	July 2, 1950	June 9, 1981	Scotland	7004337710000000000♠92 years, 168 days
99	Walter Ivan de Azevedo	May 8, 1926	December 8, 1953	July 27, 1986	Brazil	7004337680000000000♠92 years, 165 days
100	Desmond Charles Moore	May 12, 1926	July 27, 1957	July 2, 1970	Australia	7004337640000000000♠92 years, 161 days

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