List of oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals

This is a list of the 100 oldest living Catholic bishops and cardinals (in red those who are Cardinals, in yellow the Pope emeritus). The current breakdown of the 100 persons is 84 bishops, 15 cardinals (14 of whom are bishops) and 1 Pope Emeritus.

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- |- bgcolor="DDA0DD" !Rank !Bishop or Cardinal !Date of birth !Ordained Priest !Consecrated Bishop !Country of origin !Age (years, days) |- | _row_count||[[Damián Iguacén Borau]]||February 12, 1916||June 7, 1941||October 11, 1970||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1916|2|12}} |- |_row_count||[[Laurent Noël]]||March 19, 1920||June 16, 1944||August 29, 1963||{{flag|Canada}}||{{ayd|1920|3|19}} |- |_row_count||[[Antônio Afonso de Miranda]]||April 14, 1920||November 1, 1945||December 27, 1971||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1920|4|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla]]||February 1, 1921||August 3, 1949||May 4, 1971||{{flag|Mexico}}||{{ayd|1921|2|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Linus Nirmal Gomes]]||September 7, 1921||November 21, 1954||November 19, 1977||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1921|9|7}} |- |_row_count||[[Odore Joseph Gendron]]||September 13, 1921||May 31, 1947||February 3, 1975||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1921|9|13}} |- |_row_count||[[José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra]]||January 1, 1922||May 28, 1946||September 8, 1961||{{flag|Mexico}}||{{ayd|1922|1|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Jožef Smej]]||February 15, 1922||December 8, 1944||May 23, 1983||{{flag|Slovenia}}||{{ayd|1922|2|15}} |- |_row_count||[[Bruno Foresti]]||May 6, 1923||April 7, 1946||January 12, 1975||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|5|6}} |- |_row_count||[[René Henry Gracida]]||June 9, 1923||May 23, 1959||January 25, 1972||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1923|6|9}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Albert Vanhoye]]||July 24, 1923||July 25, 1954||style="text-align:center"|—||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1923|7|24}} |- |_row_count||[[Eloy Tato Losada]]||September 6, 1923||June 15, 1946||July 25, 1960||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1923|9|6}} |- |_row_count||[[Giuseppe Casale]]||September 28, 1923||February 3, 1946||December 8, 1974||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|9|28}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Henryk Gulbinowicz]]||October 17, 1923||June 18, 1950||February 8, 1970||{{flag|Poland}}||{{ayd|1923|10|17}} |- |_row_count||[[Luigi Bettazzi]]||November 26, 1923||August 4, 1946||October 4, 1963||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|11|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Augusto Lauro]]||November 29, 1923||June 29, 1947||October 28, 1975||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1923|11|29}} |- |_row_count||[[Jean Orchampt]]||December 9, 1923||June 29, 1948||September 18, 1971||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1923|12|9}} |- |_row_count||[[Stanisław Szymecki]]||January 26, 1924||July 3, 1947||April 12, 1981||{{flag|Poland}}||{{ayd|1924|1|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Remi De Roo]]||February 24, 1924||June 8, 1950||December 14, 1962||{{flag|Canada}}||{{ayd|1924|2|24}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Jozef Tomko]]||March 11, 1924||March 12, 1949||September 15, 1979||{{flag|Slovakia}}||{{ayd|1924|3|11}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Alexandre José Maria dos Santos]]||March 18, 1924||June 25, 1953||March 9, 1975||{{flag|Mozambique}}||{{ayd|1924|3|18}} |- |_row_count||[[Peter Takaaki Hirayama]]||March 31, 1924||March 19, 1957||January 25, 1970||{{flag|Japan}}||{{ayd|1924|3|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Settimio Todisco]]||May 10, 1924||July 27, 1947||February 15, 1970||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1924|5|10}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Edward Cassidy]]||July 5, 1924||July 23, 1949||November 15, 1970||{{flag|Australia}}||{{ayd|1924|7|5}} |- |_row_count||[[Daniel Verstraete]]||July 31, 1924||February 19, 1950||May 14, 1978||{{flag|South Africa}}||{{ayd|1924|7|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Manuel Edmilson da Cruz]]||October 3, 1924||December 5, 1948||November 6, 1966||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1924|10|3}} |- |_row_count||[[Albert Houssiau]]||November 2, 1924||February 6, 1949||May 18, 1986||{{flag|Belgium}}||{{ayd|1924|11|2}} |- |_row_count||[[Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña]]||November 7, 1924||April 1, 1951||February 2, 1983||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1924|11|7}} |- |_row_count||[[Victorinus Youn Kong-hi]]||November 8, 1924||March 20, 1950||October 20, 1963||{{flag|South Korea}}||{{ayd|1924|11|8}} |- |_row_count||[[John Aloysius O'Mara]]||November 17, 1924||June 1, 1951||June 29, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1924|11|17}} |- |_row_count||[[Gaetano Bonicelli]]||December 13, 1924||May 22, 1948||August 26, 1975||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1924|12|13}} |- |_row_count||[[Georges Perron]]||January 12, 1925||June 29, 1951||March 14, 1993||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|1|12}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Alexandre do Nascimento]]||March 1, 1925||December 20, 1952||August 31, 1975||{{flag|Angola}}||{{ayd|1925|3|1}} |- |rowspan="2"|_row_count / _row_count||[[Guy Alexis Herbulot]]||March 7, 1925||June 29, 1950||September 8, 1974||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|3|7}} |- |[[João Evangelista Martins Terra]]||March 7, 1925||December 22, 1956||November 20, 1988||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1925|3|7}} |- |_row_count||[[James Hector MacDonald]]||April 28, 1925||June 29, 1953||April 17, 1978||{{flag|Canada}}||{{ayd|1925|4|28}} |- |_row_count||[[Ignatius Paul Pinto]]||May 18, 1925||August 24, 1952||January 31, 1989||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1925|5|18}} |- |_row_count||[[Ernest Bertrand Boland]]||July 10, 1925||June 9, 1955||July 25, 1966||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1925|7|10}} |- |_row_count||[[Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand]]||July 11, 1925||October 10, 1948||September 14, 1975||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|7|11}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Francisco Álvarez Martínez]] ||July 14, 1925||June 11, 1950||June 3, 1973||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1925|7|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Michael J. Cleary]]||September 1, 1925||June 29, 1952||March 25, 1981||{{flag|Ireland}}||{{ayd|1925|9|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Gabriel Fernandez]]||September 16, 1925||March 19, 1949||May 14, 1978||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1925|9|16}} |- |_row_count||[[Angelo Acerbi]]||September 23, 1925||March 27, 1948||June 30, 1974||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1925|9|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Hitti]]||September 30, 1925||March 24, 1951||January 6, 1991||{{flag|Lebanon}}||{{ayd|1925|9|30}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[José Freire Falcão]]||October 23, 1925||June 19, 1949||June 28, 1988||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1925|10|23}} |- |rowspan="2"|_row_count / _row_count||[[Didier-Léon Marchand]]||November 1, 1925||May 19, 1951||November 5, 1978||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|11|1}} |- |[[Arturo Lona Reyes]]||November 1, 1925||August 15, 1952||August 15, 1971||{{flag|Mexico}}||{{ayd|1925|11|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Jaime Mota de Farias]]||November 12, 1925||August 25, 1957||September 11, 1982||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1925|11|12}} |- |_row_count||[[Jacques de Saint-Blanquat]]||November 21, 1925||March 29, 1952||October 5, 1975||{{flag|France}}||{{ayd|1925|11|21}} |- |_row_count||[[Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes]]||December 9, 1925||December 17, 1949||December 17, 1977||{{flag|Guatemala}}||{{ayd|1925|12|9}} |- |_row_count||[[John R. Gorman]]||December 11, 1925||May 1, 1956||April 11, 1988||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1925|12|11}} |- |_row_count||[[Jacó Roberto Hilgert]]||January 27, 1926||November 30, 1952||September 26, 1976||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|1|27}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Estanislao Esteban Karlic]]||February 7, 1926||December 8, 1954||August 15, 1977||{{flag|Argentina}}||{{ayd|1926|2|7}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Luigi De Magistris (cardinal)|Luigi De Magistris]]||February 23, 1926||April 12, 1952||April 28, 1996||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|2|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Gabino Díaz Merchán]]||February 26, 1926||July 13, 1952||August 22, 1965||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1926|2|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Helímenas de Jesús Rojo Paredes]]||April 22, 1926||July 8, 1950||May 18, 1980||{{flag|Venezuela}}||{{ayd|1926|4|22}} |- |_row_count|||[[Franz Josef Kuhnle]]||April 27, 1926||July 20, 1952||November 27, 1976||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1926|4|27}} |- |_row_count||[[Maurice Taylor (bishop)|Maurice Taylor]]||May 5, 1926||July 2, 1950||June 9, 1981||{{flag|United Kingdom}}||{{ayd|1926|5|5}} |- |_row_count||[[Walter Ivan de Azevedo]]||May 8, 1926||December 8, 1953||July 27, 1986||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|5|8}} |- |_row_count||[[Hildebrando Mendes Costa]]||June 16, 1926||December 2, 1951||May 24, 1981||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|6|16}} |- |_row_count||[[Jānis Cakuls]]||July 4, 1926||September 18, 1949||December 11, 1982||{{flag|Latvia}}||{{ayd|1926|7|4}} |- |_row_count||[[Emanuele Catarinicchia]]||July 12, 1926||April 2, 1949||December 17, 1978||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|7|12}} |- |_row_count||[[James Chan Soon Cheong]]||July 26, 1926||August 6, 1959||June 8, 1973||{{flag|Malaysia}}||{{ayd|1926|7|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Heitor de Araújo Sales]]||July 29, 1926||December 3, 1950||June 16, 1978||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|7|29}} |- |_row_count||[[Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto]]||August 11, 1926||December 6, 1950||August 28, 1966||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1926|8|11}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Agostino Cacciavillan]]||August 14, 1926||June 26, 1949||February 21, 1976||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|8|14}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Marian Jaworski]]||August 21, 1926||June 25, 1950||June 23, 1984||{{flag|Ukraine}}||{{ayd|1926|8|21}} |- |_row_count||[[Raúl Holguer López Mayorga]]||August 24, 1926||June 29, 1951||April 29, 1973||{{flag|Ecuador}}||{{ayd|1926|8|24}} |- |_row_count||[[Lawrence Donald Soens]]||August 26, 1926||May 6, 1950||August 17, 1983||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1926|8|26}} |- |_row_count||[[Juozas Žemaitis]]||August 30, 1926||September 25, 1949||March 18, 1989||{{flag|Lithuania}}||{{ayd|1926|8|30}} |- |_row_count||[[Gilbert Sheldon (Bishop of Steubenville)|Gilbert Sheldon]]||September 20, 1926||February 28, 1953||June 11, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1926|9|20}} |- |_row_count||[[Ernesto Togni]]||October 6, 1926||May 7, 1950||September 17, 1978||{{flag|Switzerland}}||{{ayd|1926|10|6}} |- |_row_count||[[Antonio Cantisani]]||November 2, 1926||June 16, 1949||December 27, 1971||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|11|2}} |- |_row_count||[[Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi]]||November 21, 1926||December 17, 1950||December 10, 1982||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|11|21}} |- |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Emmanuel Wamala]]||December 15, 1926||December 21, 1957||November 22, 1981||{{flag|Uganda}}||{{ayd|1926|12|15}} |- |_row_count||[[Jean Assaad Haddad]]||December 17, 1926||July 2, 1950||November 27, 1988||{{flag|Lebanon}}||{{ayd|1926|12|17}} |- |_row_count||[[Michael Pak Jeong-il]]||December 18, 1926||November 23, 1958||May 31, 1977||{{flag|South Korea}}||{{ayd|1926|12|18}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Jorge Medina]]||December 23, 1926||June 12, 1954||January 6, 1985||{{flag|Chile}}||{{ayd|1926|12|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Paolo Magnani]]||December 31, 1926||June 29, 1951||September 10, 1977||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1926|12|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên]]||January 7, 1927||May 14, 1960||November 19, 1992||{{flag|Vietnam}}||{{ayd|1927|1|7}} |- |_row_count||[[Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol]]||January 25, 1927||August 22, 1953||January 6, 1984||{{flag|South Korea}}||{{ayd|1927|1|25}} |- |_row_count||[[Julian Wojtkowski]]||January 31, 1927||June 25, 1950||August 22, 1969||{{flag|Poland}}||{{ayd|1927|1|31}} |- |rowspan="2"|_row_count / _row_count||[[Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno]]||February 14, 1927||June 29, 1953||March 3, 1990||{{flag|Ecuador}}||{{ayd|1927|2|14}} |- |[[Gilberto Pereira Lopes]]||February 14, 1927||December 14, 1949||December 18, 1969||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1927|2|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Alfredo Magarotto]]||February 16, 1927||July 9, 1950||March 24, 1990||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|2|16}} |- |_row_count||[[Senan Louis O’Donnell]]||February 24, 1927||July 17, 1955||November 28, 1993||{{flag|Ireland}}||{{ayd|1927|2|24}} |- |_row_count||[[Dominic Anthony Marconi]]||March 13, 1927||May 30, 1953||June 25, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|3|13}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Eduardo Martínez Somalo]]||March 31, 1927||March 19, 1950||December 13, 1975||{{flag|Spain}}||{{ayd|1927|3|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Rembert George Weakland]]||April 2, 1927||June 24, 1951||September 20, 1977||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|4|2}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Pallikaparampil]]||April 10, 1927||November 23, 1958||August 15, 1973||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1927|4|10}} |-style="background-color:#FFF39E;" |_row_count||[[Pope Benedict XVI|Joseph Ratzinger]]||April 16, 1927||June 29, 1951||May 28, 1977||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1927|4|16}} |- |_row_count||[[José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui]]||May 20, 1927||November 20, 1949||October 25, 1977||{{flag|Colombia}}||{{ayd|1927|5|20}} |- |_row_count||[[Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral]]||May 25, 1927||December 8, 1954||April 20, 1975||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1927|5|25}} |- |_row_count||[[Raul Nicolau Gonçalves]]||June 15, 1927||December 21, 1950||March 5, 1967||{{flag|India}}||{{ayd|1927|6|15}} |- |_row_count||[[Joseph Martin Sartoris]]||July 1, 1927||May 30, 1953||March 19, 1994||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|7|1}} |- |_row_count||[[Howard George Tripp]]||July 3, 1927||May 31, 1953||January 30, 1980||{{flag|United Kingdom}}||{{ayd|1927|7|3}} |- |_row_count||[[James Timlin]]||August 5, 1927||July 16, 1951||September 21, 1976||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|8|5}} |- |_row_count||[[Alberto Tricarico]]||August 10, 1927||January 6, 1950||April 27, 1987||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|8|10}} |- |_row_count||[[Kazimierz Romaniuk]]||August 21, 1927||December 16, 1951||March 4, 1982||{{flag|Poland}}||{{ayd|1927|8|21}} |- |_row_count||[[Edoardo Rovida]]||August 26, 1927||June 29, 1950||October 10, 1971||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|8|26}}  |}

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