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
2	Jan van Cauwelaert	April 12, 1914	August 6, 1939	March 25, 1954	Belgium
3	Bernardino Piñera	September 22, 1915	April 5, 1947	April 27, 1958	Chile
4	Loris Francesco Capovilla	October 14, 1915	May 23, 1940	July 16, 1967	Italy
5	Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia	October 17, 1915	June 27, 1943	January 30, 1964	Spain
6	Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol	October 19, 1915	August 10, 1940	February 25, 1964	Netherlands
7	Albert Malbois	November 17, 1915	June 29, 1938	April 22, 1961	France
8	Damián Iguacén Borau	February 12, 1916	June 7, 1941	October 11, 1970	Spain
9	Giovanni Benedetti	March 12, 1917	May 26, 1940	January 23, 1975	Italy
10	Hubertus Ernst	April 8, 1917	June 7, 1941	December 17, 1967	Netherlands
11	Vincenzo Franco	June 1, 1917	July 6, 1947	January 26, 1975	Italy
12	Gérard Tremblay	October 27, 1918	June 16, 1946	May 22, 1981	Canada
13	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez	February 18, 1919	December 14, 1941	August 28, 1955	Colombia
14	Gregorio Garavito Jiménez	March 9, 1919	July 24, 1942	February 11, 1962	Colombia
15	José Maria Pires	March 15, 1919	December 20, 1941	September 22, 1957	Brazil
16	Myles McKeon	April 3, 1919	June 22, 1947	September 12, 1962	Australia
17	Hovhannes Tcholakian	April 12, 1919	April 25, 1943	March 5, 1967	Turkey
18	Gérard Dionne	June 19, 1919	May 1, 1948	April 8, 1975	Canada
19	Martin Nicholas Lohmuller	August 21, 1919	June 3, 1944	April 2, 1970	United States
20	Aldo Mongiano	November 1, 1919	June 3, 1943	October 5, 1975	Italy
21	Georges-Hilaire Dupont	November 16, 1919	May 9, 1943	May 1, 1964	France
22	Andrés Sapelak	December 13, 1919	June 29, 1949	October 15, 1961	Argentina/Ukraine
23	Carlos Quintero Arce	February 13, 1920	April 8, 1944	May 14, 1961	Mexico
24	Laurent Noël	March 19, 1920	June 16, 1944	August 29, 1963	Canada
25	Antônio Afonso de Miranda	April 14, 1920	November 1, 1945	December 27, 1971	Brazil
26	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir	May 15, 1920	May 7, 1950	July 16, 1961	Lebanon
27	Odo Fusi Pecci	June 29, 1920	December 19, 1942	August 29, 1971	Italy
28	Jean Chabbert	December 31, 1920	June 29, 1947	July 7, 1967	France
29	Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	February 1, 1921	August 3, 1949	May 4, 1971	Mexico
30	José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco	March 30, 1921	March 27, 1948	July 25, 1965	Mexico
31	Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González	April 16, 1921	July 15, 1945	March 19, 1962	Argentina/Uruguay
32	Boleslaw Pylak	August 20, 1921	June 29, 1948	May 29, 1966	Poland
33	Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen	August 21, 1921	June 1, 1946	August 30, 1962	United States
34	Linus Nirmal Gomes	September 7, 1921	November 21, 1954	November 19, 1977	India
35	Francis Quinn	September 11, 1921	June 15, 1946	June 29, 1978	United States
36	Odore Joseph Gendron	September 13, 1921	May 31, 1947	February 3, 1975	United States
37	Paulo Evaristo Arns	September 14, 1921	November 30, 1945	July 3, 1966	Brazil
38	Jacques Landriault	September 23, 1921	February 9, 1947	July 25, 1962	Canada
39	Girolamo Prigione	October 12, 1921	May 18, 1944	November 24, 1968	Italy
40	József Szendi	October 31, 1921	December 24, 1944	April 21, 1982	Hungary
41	Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff	November 30, 1921	March 15, 1953	September 10, 1972	Netherlands
42	Paul Hisao Yasuda	December 20, 1921	May 21, 1955	March 21, 1970	Japan
43	José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	January 1, 1922	May 28, 1946	September 8, 1961	Mexico
44	Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez	January 17, 1922	March 22, 1947	June 21, 1960	Mexico
45	Jožef Smej	February 15, 1922	December 8, 1944	May 23, 1983	Slovenia
46	Louis Anthony DeSimone	February 21, 1922	May 10, 1952	August 12, 1981	United States
47	Hilarion Capucci	March 2, 1922	July 20, 1947	September 5, 1965	Syria
48	Luigi Barbarito	April 19, 1922	August 20, 1944	August 10, 1969	Italy
49	Dante Bernini	April 20, 1922	August 12, 1945	December 8, 1971	Italy
50	Antun Bogetić	April 24, 1922	June 29, 1946	April 28, 1984	Croatia
51	Georges Marie Martin Cottier	April 25, 1922	July 2, 1951	October 20, 2003	Switzerland
52	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini	May 4, 1922	August 12, 1945	April 25, 1983	Italy
53	Gilberto Agustoni	July 26, 1922	April 20, 1946	January 6, 1987	Switzerland
54	Roger Etchegaray	September 25, 1922	July 13, 1947	May 27, 1969	France
55	Abraham D. Mattam	November 21, 1922	March 15, 1950	April 30, 1977	India
55	Miguel Esteban Hesayne	December 26, 1922	December 12, 1948	June 4, 1975	Argentina
57	Antonio Riboldi	January 16, 1923	June 29, 1951	March 11, 1978	Italy
58	Chucrallah Harb	May 5, 1923	June 19, 1949	May 14, 1967	Lebanon
59	Bruno Foresti	May 6, 1923	April 7, 1946	January 12, 1975	Italy
60	Daniel Kucera	May 7, 1923	May 26, 1949	July 21, 1977	United States
61	René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	May 23, 1959	January 25, 1972	United States
62	Conrado Walter	June 19, 1923	December 2, 1956	February 2, 1978	Brazil
63	Albert Vanhoye	July 23, 1923	July 25, 1954	-----------	France
64	Andrea Veggio	August 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	September 8, 1983	Italy
65	Joseph Lawson Howze	August 30, 1923	May 7, 1959	January 28, 1973	United States
66	Moisés Julio Blanchoud	September 4, 1923	December 14, 1947	April 24, 1960	Argentina
67	Eloy Tato Losada	September 6, 1923	June 15, 1946	July 25, 1960	Spain
	Maximilian Ziegelbauer	September 6, 1923	May 21, 1950	October 22, 1983	Germany
69	Giuseppe Casale	September 28, 1923	February 3, 1946	December 8, 1974	Italy
70	Henryk Gulbinowicz	October 17, 1923	June 18, 1950	February 8, 1970	Poland
71	Achille Silvestrini	October 25, 1923	July 13, 1946	May 27, 1979	Italy
72	Newton Holanda Gurgel	November 1, 1923	December 17, 1949	May 27, 1979	Brazil
73	Giovanni Moretti	November 20, 1923	June 28, 1947	October 24, 1971	Italy
74	Luigi Bettazzi	November 26, 1923	August 4, 1946	October 4, 1963	Italy
75	Augusto Lauro	November 29, 1923	June 29, 1947	October 28, 1975	Italy
76	Manuel Vieira Pinto	December 8, 1923	August 7, 1949	June 29, 1967	Mozambique
77	Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt	December 9, 1923	June 29, 1948	September 18, 1971	France
78	Luis Alberto Luna Tobar	December 15, 1923	June 23, 1946	September 18, 1977	Ecuador
79	John C. O'Riordan	January 6, 1924	June 29, 1952	December 2, 1984	Ireland
80	Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau	January 10, 1924	June 28, 1947	April 22, 1979	France
81	Léon-Raymond Soulier	January 13, 1924	September 7, 1947	September 12, 1971	France
82	Stanisław Szymecki	January 26, 1924	July 3, 1947	April 12, 1981	Poland
83	Silvano Piovanelli	February 21, 1924	July 13, 1947	June 24, 1982	Italy
84	Remi De Roo	February 24, 1924	June 8, 1950	December 14, 1962	Canada
85	Jozef Tomko	March 11, 1924	March 12, 1949	September 15, 1979	Slovakia
86	Urbano José Allgayer	March 16, 1924	December 10, 1950	March 24, 1974	Brazil
87	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos	March 18, 1924	June 25, 1953	March 9, 1975	Mozambique
88	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	March 31, 1924	March 19, 1957	January 25, 1970	Japan
89	Carmelo Cassati	April 6, 1924	December 17, 1949	June 28, 1970	Italy
90	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	April 7, 1924	March 10, 1955	May 25, 1979	Philippines
91	Joseph Neil MacNeil	April 15, 1924	May 23, 1948	June 24, 1969	Canada
92	Settimio Todisco	May 10, 1924	July 27, 1947	February 15, 1970	Italy
93	Yves-Marie-Henri Bescond	May 19, 1924	June 29, 1949	March 28, 1971	France
94	James Martin Hayes	May 27, 1924	June 15, 1947	April 20, 1965	Canada
95	Colin Cameron Davies	June 10, 1924	July 13, 1952	February 27, 1977	Spain
96	Edward Cassidy	July 5, 1924	July 23, 1949	November 15, 1970	Australia
97	Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa	July 8, 1924	October 6, 1949	March 25, 1976	Portugal
98	Daniel Alphonse Omer Verstraete	July 31, 1924	February 19, 1950	May 14, 1978	South Africa
99	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	August 13, 1924	March 12, 1949	May 7, 1959	Brazil
100	Fulgence Werner Le Roy	August 23, 1924	September 22, 1947	September 14, 1975	South Africa

External links

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