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List of centenarians (religious figures)

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The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as religious figures – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

  All supercentenarians (above 110 years old)
  Living
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Name Lifespan Age Reason for Notability
Angelo Acerbi1925–100Cardinal of the Catholic Church[1]
Laban Ainsworth1757–1858100American clergyman and pastor[2]
Carlos Aldunate Lyon1916–2018102Chilean Jesuit priest, master of novices (Pope Francis) and writer[3]
Elizabeth Alfred1914–2015101Australian Anglican priest[4][5]
Albert Jean Amateau1889–1996106Turkish-born American rabbi[6]
Joseph Anderson1889–1992102American general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[7]
Saint Anthony251–356105Egyptian Christian saint[8]
Ferdinand Ashmall1695–1798103English Roman Catholic priest who died in the 73rd year of his ministry[9]
Corrado Bafile1903–2005101Italian Roman Catholic cardinal[10]
Giovanni Benedetti1917–2017100Italian Roman Catholic bishop[11]
Pravrajika Bhaktiprana1920–2022102Indian Hindu sannyasini[12]
Dmytro Blazheyovskyi1910–2011100Ukrainian scientist and religious author[13]
Henry Boehm1775–1875100American clergyman and pastor[14]
George William BonDurant1915–2017101American preacher (Restoration Movement of Christianity) and educator[15]
Boro Maa1918–2019100–101Indian Hindu leader, matriarch of the Matua Mahasangha[16][17]
Joseph Oliver Bowers1910–2012102Dominican Ghanaian Roman Catholic bishop[18]
Adalbert Brunke1912–2013101German Lutheran leader[19]
Loris Francesco Capovilla1915–2016100Italian Roman Catholic cardinal[20]
Jan van Cauwelaert1914–2016102Belgian Roman Catholic bishop[21]
John Cavell1916–2017100British Anglican bishop[22]
Laurence Chaderton1536–1640103English Anglican Puritan divine[23]
Saint Charalambos89?–202113?Ancient Greek bishop[24]
Yehuda Chitrik1899–2006106American rabbi[25]
Jacques Clemens1909–2018108Dutch Roman Catholic priest[26]
James Burton Coffman1905–2006101American Christian preacher and teacher[27]
William C. Conway1865–1969104American mysticism leader[28]
Jorge da Costa1406–1508101–102Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal[29]
Stephen Cumberbatch1909–2011101Trinidadian Anglican Archdeacon[30]
Quirino De Ascaniis1908–2009100Italian priest[31]
Antônio Afonso de Miranda1920–2021101Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop Emeritus of Taubaté[32][33]
Indra Devi1899–2002102Russian-American yogi[34]
Bhante Dharmawara1889?–1999110?Cambodian-born monk and educator[35]
Ralph Edward Dodge1907–2008101American bishop of the Methodist Church[36]
Sister Angela Mary Doyle1925–101Irish-Australian Catholic nun[37]
George Duggan1912–2012100New Zealand Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, seminary professor and writer[38]
Ephraim Einhorn1918–2021103Austrian rabbi based in Taiwan[39]
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv1910–2012102Israeli rabbi[40]
Hubertus Ernst1917–2017100Dutch Roman Catholic bishop[41]
Christopher Evans1909–2012102English chaplain and theologian[42]
Sophia Lyon Fahs1876–1978101American Unitarian minister, educator and writer[43]
Vincent Foy1915–2017101Canadian Roman Catholic cleric and theologian[44]
Eugene Maxwell Frank1907–2009101American religious leader and Methodist Church bishop[45]
Reginald C. Fuller1908–2011102British Roman Catholic priest[46]
Irineos Galanakis1911–2013101Greek Orthodox bishop[47]
José de Jesús García Ayala1910–2014103Mexican Roman Catholic bishop[48]
Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia1915–2018102Spanish Roman Catholic bishop[49]
Blanche Gates1918–2023105Canadian Anglican liturgist[50]
Manuel Edmilson da Cruz 1924– 101 Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop
Peter Leo Gerety1912–2016104American Roman Catholic bishop[51]
Davuldena Gnanissara Thero1915–2017101Sri Lankan scholar Buddhist monk and supreme Mahanayaka of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Nikaya[52]
René Henry Gracida1923–2026102American Bishop[53]
Maxine Grimm1914–2017102American LDS Church leader[54]
Ezekiel Guti1923–2023100Zimbabwean evangelist[55]
Nolan Bailey Harmon1892–1993100American Methodist bishop and author[56]
Theodore Heck1901–2009108American Benedictine monk[57]
Augustine Hoey1915–2017101English Anglican priest[58]
Hosius of Corduba (also known as Osius or Ossius)256–359102Bishop of Corduba (now Córdoba, Spain)[59]
Edward Howard1877–1983105American Roman Catholic archbishop[60]
Ben Huan1907–2012104Chinese Buddhist[61]
Damián Iguacén Borau1916–2020104Spanish Roman Catholic bishop[62]
Isaac of Armenia338–439100–101Parthian Catholicos of Armenia[63]
Florence S. Jacobsen1913–2017103American President of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association[64]
Sister Jean1919–2025106American Catholic Religious Sister[65]
John the Silent454–558104Greek Christian saint[66]
Meir Just1908–2010101Dutch Chief Rabbi[67]
Yitzhak Kaduri1899?/1900?–2006106?Iraqi-born Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist[68]
Shmuel Kamenetsky1924–101American rabbi [69]
Bruno Kant1916–2026110German Roman Catholic priest[70]
Augoustinos Kantiotes1907–2010103Greek Orthodox bishop[71]
Mordecai Kaplan1881–1983102Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Reconstructionist Judaism[72]
Gregory of Khandzta759–861101–102Georgian saint of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church[73]
Hossein Wahid Khorasani1921–105Iranian ayatollah and author[74]
Consolata Kline1916–2016100American Roman Catholic sister[75]
Myer S. Kripke1914–2014100American rabbi[76]
Guillermo Leaden1913–2014100Argentine Roman Catholic bishop[77]
Felice Leonardo1915–2015100Italian Roman Catholic bishop[78]
Géry Leuliet1910–2015104French Roman Catholic bishop[79]
Albert Malbois1915–2017101French Roman Catholic bishop[80]
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin1912–2015102American Roman Catholic bishop[81]
Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero1909–2012102Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Mahanayaka of Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya[82]
Antonio Rosario Mennonna1906–2009103Italian Roman Catholic bishop[83]
Halvor Midtbø1883–1985101Norwegian priest and temperance activist[84]
Richard Millard1914–2018103American episcopal prelate and bishop of California (1960–1978)[85]
William McElwee Miller1892–1993100American missionary and author[86]
Francesco Minerva1904–2004100Italian archbishop emeritus of Lecce[87]
Paul Mwazha1918–2025107Zimbabwean clergyman[88]
Narcissus of Jerusalemc. 99?–c. 215116?Ancient Roman Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem[89]
Oswald von Nell-Breuning1890–1991101German Roman Catholic theologician and sociologist[90]
Russell M. Nelson1924–2025101President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints[91]
Nguyễn Khắc Ngư1909–2009100Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop[92]
Nguyễn Văn Thiện1906–2012106Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop[93]
Arturo Paoli1912–2015102Italian priest and missionary[94]
Paul of Thebes227?–341113?Egyptian Christian saint[95]
Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez1912–2012100Spanish Roman Catholic bishop[96]
Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma1918–2021103Indian bishop of Mar Thoma Syrian Church.[97]
Bernardino Piñera1915–2020104French-born Chilean Roman Catholic bishop[98]
Muhammad Qadiri1552–1654101Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher[99]
Chatral Rinpoche1913–2015102Tibetan Buddhist yogi[100]
Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani1919–2022102Iranian marja'[101]
Nicholas Salamis1897–2005108Greek-born Canadian Greek Orthodox priest[102]
Tom Salmon1913–2013100Irish Anglican cleric[103]
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki1907–2014107Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher[104]
James Schaffer1910–2014104American Christian leader[105]
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg1910–2012101Israeli rabbi[106]
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman1913–2017103–104Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek[107]
Elazar Shach1899–2001102Israeli leading Haredi rabbi[108]
Eldred G. Smith1907–2013106American former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[109]
Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol1915–2016100Dutch Roman Catholic bishop[110]
Mack B. Stokes1911–2012100American bishop of the Methodist Church[111]
Shivakumara Swami1907–2019111Indian religious leader[112]
Tillit Sidney Teddlie1885–1987102American hymnalist and pastor
Tenkai1536–1643106–107Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk[113]
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero1896–1998101Sri Lankan scholar-monk[114]
Settimio Todisco1924–2025100Italian Roman Catholic prelate[115]
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien1897–2007110Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation[116]
Marian Tumler1887–1987100Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order[117]
(Somdet Phra Sangharaja Chao Krommaluang) Vajirañāṇasaṃvara1913–201310019th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand[118]
Agnès-Marie Valois1914–2018103French nun and World War II nurse[119]
Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla1921–2022101Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church[120]
Daniel Waldo1762–1864101American clergyman[121]
Warren Prall Watters1890–1992102American founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch[122]
Herbert George Welch1862–1969106American Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University[123]
Eleutherius Winance1909–2009100Belgian monk and co-founder of St. Andrew's Abbey[124]
Shmuel Wosner1913–2015101Israeli Haredi rabbi[125]
Gershon Yankelewitz1909–2014105Belarusian-born American rabbi[126]
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