List of centenarians (religious figures)
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.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
---|---|---|---|
Pope Agatho | 577–681 | 103–104 | Greek Roman Catholic Pope[1] |
Laban Ainsworth | 1757–1858 | 100 | American clergyman and pastor[2] |
Elizabeth Alfred | 1914–2015 | 101 | Australian Anglican deaconess[3] |
Albert Jean Amateau | 1889–1996 | 106 | Turkish-born American Rabbi[4] |
Joseph Anderson | 1889–1992 | 102 | American general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[5] |
Saint Anthony | 251–356 | 105 | Egyptian Christian saint[6] |
Corrado Bafile | 1903–2005 | 101 | Italian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church[7] |
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero | 1896–1998 | 101 | Sri Lankan scholar-monk[8] |
Giovanni Benedetti | 1917– | 107 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop[9] |
Dmytro Blazheyovskyi | 1910–2011 | 100 | Ukrainian scientist and religious author[10] |
Henry Boehm | 1775–1875 | 100 | American clergyman and pastor[11] |
Joseph Oliver Bowers | 1910–2012 | 102 | Dominican Roman Catholic bishop[12] |
Adalbert Brunke | 1912–2013 | 101 | German Lutheran leader[13] |
Loris Francesco Capovilla | 1915–2016 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic cardinal[14] |
Jan van Cauwelaert | 1914–2016 | 102 | Belgian Roman Catholic bishop[15] |
Laurence Chaderton | 1536–1640 | 103 | English Anglican Puritan divine[16] |
Saint Charalambos | 89–202 | 113 | Ancient Greek bishop[17] |
Yehuda Chitrik | 1899–2006 | 106 | American Rabbi[18] |
James Burton Coffman | 1905–2006 | 101 | American Christian preacher and teacher[19] |
William C. Conway | 1865–1969 | 104 | American mysticism leader[20] |
Hosius of Corduba | 256–359 | 102 | Ancient Roman Catholic bishop of Córdoba, Spain[21] |
Jorge da Costa | 1406–1508 | 101–102 | Portuguese cardinal[22] |
Quirino De Ascaniis | 1908–2009 | 100 | Italian priest[23] |
Indra Devi | 1899–2002 | 102 | Indian yoga teacher[24] |
Bhante Dharmawara | 1889–1999 | 110 | Cambodian-born monk and educator[25] |
Ralph Edward Dodge | 1907–2008 | 101 | American bishop of The Methodist Church[26] |
George Duggan | 1912–2012 | 100 | New Zealand Catholic priest and apologist[27] |
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv | 1910–2012 | 102 | Israeli Rabbi[28] |
Christopher Evans | 1909–2012 | 102 | English chaplain and theologian[29] |
Sophia Lyon Fahs | 1876–1978 | 101 | American Unitarian minister, educator and writer[30] |
Vincent Foy | 1915–2017 | 101 | Canadian Catholic cleric and theologian[31] |
Eugene Maxwell Frank | 1907–2009 | 101 | American bishop of The Methodist Church[32] |
Reginald C. Fuller | 1908–2011 | 102 | British Catholic priest[33] |
Irineos Galanakis | 1911–2013 | 101 | Greek Orthodox bishop[34] |
José de Jesús García Ayala | 1910–2014 | 103 | Mexican Roman Catholic bishop[35] |
Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia | 1915– | 108 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop[36] |
Peter Leo Gerety | 1912–2016 | 104 | American Roman Catholic bishop[37] |
Davuldena Gnanissara Thero | 1915–2017 | 101 | Sri Lankan scholar Buddhist monk and supreme Mahanayaka of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Nikaya[38] |
Maxine Grimm | 1914–2017 | 102 | American LDS Church leader[39] |
Florence S. Jacobsen | 1913–2017 | 103 | American President of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association[40] |
Meir Just | 1908–2010 | 101 | Dutch Chief Rabbi[41] |
Augoustinos Kantiotes | 1907–2010 | 103 | Greek Orthodox bishop[42] |
Gregory of Khandzta | 759–861 | 101–102 | Georgian saint of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church[43] |
Myer S. Kripke | 1914–2014 | 100 | American rabbi[44] |
Nolan Bailey Harmon | 1892–1993 | 100 | American Methodist bishop and author[45] |
Edward Howard | 1877–1983 | 105 | American Roman Catholic archbishop[46] |
Ben Huan | 1907–2012 | 105 | Chinese Buddhist[47] |
Damián Iguacén Borau | 1916– | 108 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop[48] |
Isaac of Armenia | 338–439 | 100–101 | Parthian Catholicos of Armenia[49] |
John the Silent | 454–558 | 104 | Greek Christian saint[50] |
Yitzhak Kaduri | 1899/1900–2006 | 106 | Iraqi-born Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist[51] |
Mordecai Kaplan | 1881–1983 | 102 | Lithuanian founder of Reconstructionist Judaism[52] |
Consolata Kline | 1916–2016 | 100 | American Roman Catholic sister[53] |
Guillermo Leaden | 1913–2014 | 100 | Argentine Roman Catholic bishop[54] |
Felice Leonardo | 1915–2015 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop[55] |
Géry Leuliet | 1910–2015 | 104 | French bishop of the Roman Catholic Church[56] |
Albert Malbois | 1915–2017 | 101 | French Roman Catholic bishop[57] |
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin | 1912–2015 | 102 | American Roman Catholic bishop[58] |
Antonio Rosario Mennonna | 1906–2009 | 103 | Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church[59] |
Halvor Midtbø | 1883–1995 | 101 | Norwegian priest and temperance activist[60] |
William McElwee Miller | 1892–1993 | 100 | American missionary and author[61] |
Francesco Minerva | 1904–2004 | 100 | Italian archbishop emeritus of Lecce[62] |
Narcissus of Jerusalem | c. 99 – c. 215 | 116 | Ancient Roman Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem[63] |
Oswald von Nell-Breuning | 1890–1991 | 101 | German Roman Catholic theologician and sociologist[64] |
Nguyen Khac Ngu | 1909–2009 | 100 | Vietnamese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church[65] |
Nguyen Van Thien | 1906–2012 | 106 | Vietnamese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church[66] |
Arturo Paoli | 1912–2015 | 102 | Italian priest and missionary[67] |
Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez | 1912–2012 | 100 | Spanish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church[68] |
Bernardino Piñera | 1915– | 108 | French-born Chilean Roman Catholic bishop[69] |
Muhammad Qadiri | 1552–1654 | 101 | Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher[70] |
Chatral Rinpoche | 1913–2015 | 102 | Tibetan Buddhist yogi[71] |
Nicholas Salamis | 1897–2005 | 108 | Greek-born Canadian Greek Orthodox priest[72] |
Tom Salmon | 1913–2013 | 100 | Irish Anglican leader[73] |
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki | 1907–2014 | 107 | Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher[74] |
James Schaffer | 1910–2014 | 104 | American Christian leader[75] |
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg | 1910–2012 | 101 | Israeli rabbi[76] |
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman | 1914– | 102–103 | Israeli Haredi rabbi[77] |
Elazar Shach | 1899–2001 | 102 | Israeli leading Haredi rabbi[78] |
Eldred G. Smith | 1907–2013 | 106 | American former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[79] |
Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol | 1915–2016 | 100 | Dutch Roman Catholic bishop[80] |
Mack B. Stokes | 1911–2012 | 100 | American bishop of the United Methodist Church[81] |
Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana | 1913–2013 | 100 | Supreme Patriarch of Thailand[82] |
Tillit Sidney Teddlie | 1885–1987 | 102 | American hymnalist and pastor[83] |
Tenkai | 1536–1643 | 106–107 | Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk[84] |
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien | 1897–2007 | 110 | Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation[85] |
Marian Tumler | 1887–1987 | 100 | Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order[86] |
Daniel Waldo | 1762–1864 | 101 | American clergyman[87] |
Warren Prall Watters | 1890–1992 | 102 | American founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch[88] |
Herbert George Welch | 1862–1969 | 106 | American Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University[89] |
Eleutherius Winance | 1909–2009 | 100 | Belgian monk and co-founder of St. Andrew's Abbey[90] |
Shmuel Wosner | 1913–2015 | 101 | Israeli Haredi Rabbi[91] |
Gershon Yankelewitz | 1909–2014 | 105 | Belarusian-born American rabbi[92] |
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