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 are 1 Pope Emeritus, 14 cardinals (13 of whom are bishops) and 85 bishops.[lower-alpha 1]

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- |- bgcolor="DDA0DD" !Rank !Bishop or Cardinal !Date of birth !Ordained Priest !Consecrated Bishop !Country of origin !Age (years, days) |- |_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||[[John Bai Ningxian]]||January 20, 1921||June 20, 1951||May 7, 1997||{{flag|China}}||{{ayd|1921|1|20}} |- |_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||[[Joseph Hou Guoyang]]||1922||1951||October 8, 1989||{{flag|China}}||99–98 years |- |_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||[[Stephen Yang Xiangtai]]||November 17, 1922||August 27, 1949||November 30, 1996||{{flag|China}}||{{ayd|1922|11|17}} |- |_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}} |- |_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||[[Thomas Zhao Duomo]]||1924||1951||February 17, 2004||{{flag|China}}||97–96 years |- |_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||[[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}} |- |_row_count||[[Didier-Léon Marchand]]||November 1, 1925||May 19, 1951||November 5, 1978||{{flag|France}}||{{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||[[John Huo Cheng]]||February 1, 1926||May 14, 1954||September 4, 1991||{{flag|China}}||{{ayd|1926|2|1}} |-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||[[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}} |- |_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||[[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||[[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}} |- |_row_count||[[Raymond Ken'ichi Tanaka]]||August 31, 1927||December 21, 1951||September 23, 1976||{{flag|Japan}}||{{ayd|1927|8|31}} |- |_row_count||[[Abraham Than]]||September 21, 1927||September 22, 1957||May 11, 1969||{{flag|Myanmar}}||{{ayd|1927|9|21}} |- |_row_count||[[Matthew Cao Xiangde]]||September, 1927||1985||June 25, 2000||{{flag|China}}||{{ayd|1927|9|30}} |- |_row_count||[[Abraham Nehmé]]||October 8, 1927||January 3, 1954||October 26, 1986||{{flag|Syria}}||{{ayd|1927|10|8}} |- |_row_count||[[Raymond E. Goedert]]||October 15, 1927||May 1, 1952||August 29, 1991||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|10|15}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Júlio Duarte Langa]]||October 27, 1927||June 9, 1957||October 24, 1976||{{flag|Mozambique}}||{{ayd|1927|10|27}} <!-- Please do not add more than 10 bishops in this section |- |_row_count||[[José Heleno]]||November 3, 1927||November 30, 1952||October 18, 1976||{{flag|Brazil}}||{{ayd|1927|11|3}} |- |_row_count||[[Pierre Trân Thanh Chung]]||November 10, 1927||May 25, 1955||November 22, 1981||{{flag|Vietnam}}||{{ayd|1927|11|10}} |- |_row_count||[[Daniel A. Cronin]]||November 14, 1927||December 20, 1952||September 12, 1968||{{flag|United States}}||{{ayd|1927|11|14}} |- |_row_count||[[Raymond Razakarinvony]]||November 19, 1927||July 27, 1956||May 17, 1998||{{flag|Madagascar}}||{{ayd|1927|11|19}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" |_row_count||[[Angelo Sodano]]||November 23, 1927||September 23, 1950||January 15, 1978||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|11|23}} |- |_row_count||[[Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer]]||December 4, 1927||August 6, 1955||April 27, 1983||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1927|12|4}} |- |_row_count||[[Vincenzo Rimedio]]||December 5, 1927||July 22, 1951||October 28, 1982||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|12|5}} |- |_row_count||[[Bruno Kouamé]]||December 16, 1927||July 8, 1956||May 31, 1981||{{flag|Ivory Coast}}||{{ayd|1927|12|16}} |- |_row_count||[[Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz]]||December 28, 1927||June 29, 1950||January 5, 1989||{{flag|Peru}}||{{ayd|1927|12|28}} |- |_row_count||[[Giovanni Zerbini]]||December 29, 1927||June 29, 1956||February 19, 1995||{{flag|Italy}}||{{ayd|1927|12|29}} |- |_row_count||[[Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi]]||January 14, 1928||July 15, 1958||January 7, 1968||{{flag|Peru}}||{{ayd|1928|1|14}} |-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" | row_count||[[Friedrich Wetter]]||February 20, 1928||October 10, 1953||June 29, 1968||{{flag|Germany}}||{{ayd|1928|2|20}} --> |}