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 |
---|---|---|---|
Laban Ainsworth | 1757–1858 | 100 | American clergyman and pastor [1] |
Carlos Aldunate Lyon | 1916–2018 | 102 | Chilean Jesuit priest, master of novices ( Pope Francis) and writer [2] |
Elizabeth Alfred | 1914–2015 | 101 | Australian Anglican priest [3] [4] |
Albert Jean Amateau | 1889–1996 | 106 | Turkish-born American rabbi [5] |
Joseph Anderson | 1889–1992 | 102 | American general authority of Mormons [6] |
Saint Anthony | 251–356 | 105 | Egyptian Christian saint [7] |
Ferdinand Ashmall | 1695–1798 | 103 | English Roman Catholic priest who died in the 73rd year of his ministry [8] |
Corrado Bafile | 1903–2005 | 101 | Italian Roman Catholic cardinal [9] |
Giovanni Benedetti | 1917–2017 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop [10] |
Pravrajika Bhaktiprana | 1920–2022 | 102 | Indian Hindu sannyasini [11] |
Dmytro Blazheyovskyi | 1910–2011 | 100 | Ukrainian scientist and religious author [12] |
Henry Boehm | 1775–1875 | 100 | American clergyman and pastor [13] |
George William BonDurant | 1915–2017 | 101 | American preacher (Restoration Movement of Christianity) and educator [14] |
Boro Maa | 1918–2019 | 100–101 | Indian Hindu leader, matriarch of the Matua Mahasangha [15] [16] |
Joseph Oliver Bowers | 1910–2012 | 102 | Dominican Ghanaian Roman Catholic bishop [17] |
Adalbert Brunke | 1912–2013 | 101 | German Lutheran leader [18] |
Loris Francesco Capovilla | 1915–2016 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic cardinal [19] |
Jan van Cauwelaert | 1914–2016 | 102 | Belgian Roman Catholic bishop [20] |
John Cavell | 1916–2017 | 100 | British Anglican bishop [21] |
Laurence Chaderton | 1536–1640 | 103 | English Anglican Puritan divine [22] |
Saint Charalambos | 89?–202 | 113? | Ancient Greek bishop [23] |
Yehuda Chitrik | 1899–2006 | 106 | American rabbi [24] |
Jacques Clemens | 1909–2018 | 108 | Dutch Roman Catholic priest [25] |
James Burton Coffman | 1905–2006 | 101 | American Christian preacher and teacher [26] |
William C. Conway | 1865–1969 | 104 | American mysticism leader [27] |
Jorge da Costa | 1406–1508 | 101–102 | Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal [28] |
Stephen Cumberbatch | 1909–2011 | 101 | Trinidadian Anglican Archdeacon [29] |
Quirino De Ascaniis | 1908–2009 | 100 | Italian priest [30] |
Antônio Afonso de Miranda | 1920–2021 | 101 | Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop Emeritus of Taubaté [31] [32] |
Indra Devi | 1899–2002 | 102 | Russian-American yogi [33] |
Bhante Dharmawara | 1889?–1999 | 110? | Cambodian-born monk and educator [34] |
Ralph Edward Dodge | 1907–2008 | 101 | American bishop of the Methodist Church [35] |
George Duggan | 1912–2012 | 100 | New Zealand Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, seminary professor and writer [36] |
Ephraim Einhorn | 1918–2021 | 103 | Austrian rabbi based in Taiwan [37] |
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv | 1910–2012 | 102 | Israeli rabbi [38] |
Hubertus Ernst | 1917–2017 | 100 | Dutch Roman Catholic bishop [39] |
Christopher Evans | 1909–2012 | 102 | English chaplain and theologian [40] |
Sophia Lyon Fahs | 1876–1978 | 101 | American Unitarian minister, educator and writer [41] |
Vincent Foy | 1915–2017 | 101 | Canadian Roman Catholic cleric and theologian [42] |
Eugene Maxwell Frank | 1907–2009 | 101 | American religious leader and Methodist Church bishop [43] |
Reginald C. Fuller | 1908–2011 | 102 | British Roman Catholic priest [44] |
Irineos Galanakis | 1911–2013 | 101 | Greek Orthodox bishop [45] |
José de Jesús García Ayala | 1910–2014 | 103 | Mexican Roman Catholic bishop [46] |
Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia | 1915–2018 | 102 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop [47] |
Peter Leo Gerety | 1912–2016 | 104 | American Roman Catholic bishop [48] |
Davuldena Gnanissara Thero | 1915–2017 | 101 | Sri Lankan scholar Buddhist monk and supreme Mahanayaka of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Nikaya [49] |
René Henry Gracida | 1923– | 100 | American Bishop [50] |
Maxine Grimm | 1914–2017 | 102 | American LDS Church leader [51] |
Ezekiel Guti | 1923–2023 | 100 | Zimbabwean evangelist [52] |
Theodore Heck | 1901–2009 | 108 | American Benedictine monk [53] |
Florence S. Jacobsen | 1913–2017 | 103 | American President of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association [54] |
Meir Just | 1908–2010 | 101 | Dutch Chief Rabbi [55] |
Augoustinos Kantiotes | 1907–2010 | 103 | Greek Orthodox bishop [56] |
Gregory of Khandzta | 759–861 | 101–102 | Georgian saint of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church [57] |
Hossein Wahid Khorasani | 1921– | 103 | Iranian ayatollah and author [58] |
Myer S. Kripke | 1914–2014 | 100 | American rabbi [59] |
Nolan Bailey Harmon | 1892–1993 | 100 | American Methodist bishop and author [60] |
Augustine Hoey | 1915–2017 | 101 | English Anglican priest [61] |
Hosius of Corduba (also known as Osius or Ossius) | 256–359 | 102 | Bishop of Corduba (now Córdoba, Spain) [62] |
Edward Howard | 1877–1983 | 105 | American Roman Catholic archbishop [63] |
Ben Huan | 1907–2012 | 105 | Chinese Buddhist [64] |
Damián Iguacén Borau | 1916–2020 | 104 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop [65] |
Isaac of Armenia | 338–439 | 100–101 | Parthian Catholicos of Armenia [66] |
John the Silent | 454–558 | 104 | Greek Christian saint [67] |
Yitzhak Kaduri | 1899?/1900?–2006 | 106? | Iraqi-born Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist [68] |
Mordecai Kaplan | 1881–1983 | 102 | Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Reconstructionist Judaism [69] |
Consolata Kline | 1916–2016 | 100 | American Roman Catholic sister [70] |
Guillermo Leaden | 1913–2014 | 100 | Argentine Roman Catholic bishop [71] |
Felice Leonardo | 1915–2015 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop [72] |
Géry Leuliet | 1910–2015 | 104 | French Roman Catholic bishop [73] |
Albert Malbois | 1915–2017 | 101 | French Roman Catholic bishop [74] |
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin | 1912–2015 | 102 | American Roman Catholic bishop [75] |
Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero | 1909–2012 | 102 | Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Mahanayaka of Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya [76] |
Antonio Rosario Mennonna | 1906–2009 | 103 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop [77] |
Halvor Midtbø | 1883–1985 | 101 | Norwegian priest and temperance activist [78] |
Richard Millard | 1914–2018 | 103 | American episcopal prelate and bishop of California (1960–1978) [79] |
William McElwee Miller | 1892–1993 | 100 | American missionary and author [80] |
Francesco Minerva | 1904–2004 | 100 | Italian archbishop emeritus of Lecce [81] |
Narcissus of Jerusalem | c. 99?–c. 215 | 116? | Ancient Roman Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem [82] |
Oswald von Nell-Breuning | 1890–1991 | 101 | German Roman Catholic theologician and sociologist [83] |
Nguyen Khac Ngu | 1909–2009 | 100 | Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop [84] |
Nguyen Van Thien | 1906–2012 | 106 | Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop [85] |
Arturo Paoli | 1912–2015 | 102 | Italian priest and missionary [86] |
Paul of Thebes | 227?–341 | 113? | Egyptian Christian saint [87] |
Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez | 1912–2012 | 100 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop [88] |
Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma | 1918–2021 | 103 | Indian bishop of Mar Thoma Syrian Church. [89] |
Bernardino Piñera | 1915–2020 | 104 | French-born Chilean Roman Catholic bishop [90] |
Muhammad Qadiri | 1552–1654 | 101 | Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher [91] |
Chatral Rinpoche | 1913–2015 | 102 | Tibetan Buddhist yogi [92] |
Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani | 1919–2022 | 102 | Iranian marja' [93] |
Nicholas Salamis | 1897–2005 | 108 | Greek-born Canadian Greek Orthodox priest [94] |
Tom Salmon | 1913–2013 | 100 | Irish Anglican cleric [95] |
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki | 1907–2014 | 107 | Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher [96] |
James Schaffer | 1910–2014 | 104 | American Christian leader [97] |
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg | 1910–2012 | 101 | Israeli rabbi [98] |
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman | 1913–2017 | 103–104 | Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek [99] |
Elazar Shach | 1899–2001 | 102 | Israeli leading Haredi rabbi [100] |
Eldred G. Smith | 1907–2013 | 106 | American former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [101] |
Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol | 1915–2016 | 100 | Dutch Roman Catholic bishop [102] |
Mack B. Stokes | 1911–2012 | 100 | American bishop of the Methodist Church [103] |
Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana | 1913–2013 | 100 | Supreme Patriarch of Thailand [104] |
Shivakumara Swami | 1907?–2019 | 111? | Indian religious leader [105] |
Tillit Sidney Teddlie | 1885–1987 | 102 | American hymnalist and pastor |
Tenkai | 1536–1643 | 106–107 | Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk [106] |
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero | 1896–1998 | 101 | Sri Lankan scholar- monk [107] |
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien | 1897–2007 | 110 | Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation [108] |
Marian Tumler | 1887–1987 | 100 | Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order [109] |
Agnès-Marie Valois | 1914–2018 | 103 | French nun and World War II nurse [110] |
Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla | 1921–2022 | 101 | Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church [111] |
Daniel Waldo | 1762–1864 | 101 | American clergyman [112] |
Warren Prall Watters | 1890–1992 | 102 | American founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch [113] |
Herbert George Welch | 1862–1969 | 106 | American Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University [114] |
Eleutherius Winance | 1909–2009 | 100 | Belgian monk and co-founder of St. Andrew's Abbey [115] |
Shmuel Wosner | 1913–2015 | 101 | Israeli Haredi rabbi [116] |
Gershon Yankelewitz | 1909–2014 | 105 | Belarusian-born American rabbi [117] |
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 |
---|---|---|---|
Laban Ainsworth | 1757–1858 | 100 | American clergyman and pastor [1] |
Carlos Aldunate Lyon | 1916–2018 | 102 | Chilean Jesuit priest, master of novices ( Pope Francis) and writer [2] |
Elizabeth Alfred | 1914–2015 | 101 | Australian Anglican priest [3] [4] |
Albert Jean Amateau | 1889–1996 | 106 | Turkish-born American rabbi [5] |
Joseph Anderson | 1889–1992 | 102 | American general authority of Mormons [6] |
Saint Anthony | 251–356 | 105 | Egyptian Christian saint [7] |
Ferdinand Ashmall | 1695–1798 | 103 | English Roman Catholic priest who died in the 73rd year of his ministry [8] |
Corrado Bafile | 1903–2005 | 101 | Italian Roman Catholic cardinal [9] |
Giovanni Benedetti | 1917–2017 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop [10] |
Pravrajika Bhaktiprana | 1920–2022 | 102 | Indian Hindu sannyasini [11] |
Dmytro Blazheyovskyi | 1910–2011 | 100 | Ukrainian scientist and religious author [12] |
Henry Boehm | 1775–1875 | 100 | American clergyman and pastor [13] |
George William BonDurant | 1915–2017 | 101 | American preacher (Restoration Movement of Christianity) and educator [14] |
Boro Maa | 1918–2019 | 100–101 | Indian Hindu leader, matriarch of the Matua Mahasangha [15] [16] |
Joseph Oliver Bowers | 1910–2012 | 102 | Dominican Ghanaian Roman Catholic bishop [17] |
Adalbert Brunke | 1912–2013 | 101 | German Lutheran leader [18] |
Loris Francesco Capovilla | 1915–2016 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic cardinal [19] |
Jan van Cauwelaert | 1914–2016 | 102 | Belgian Roman Catholic bishop [20] |
John Cavell | 1916–2017 | 100 | British Anglican bishop [21] |
Laurence Chaderton | 1536–1640 | 103 | English Anglican Puritan divine [22] |
Saint Charalambos | 89?–202 | 113? | Ancient Greek bishop [23] |
Yehuda Chitrik | 1899–2006 | 106 | American rabbi [24] |
Jacques Clemens | 1909–2018 | 108 | Dutch Roman Catholic priest [25] |
James Burton Coffman | 1905–2006 | 101 | American Christian preacher and teacher [26] |
William C. Conway | 1865–1969 | 104 | American mysticism leader [27] |
Jorge da Costa | 1406–1508 | 101–102 | Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal [28] |
Stephen Cumberbatch | 1909–2011 | 101 | Trinidadian Anglican Archdeacon [29] |
Quirino De Ascaniis | 1908–2009 | 100 | Italian priest [30] |
Antônio Afonso de Miranda | 1920–2021 | 101 | Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop Emeritus of Taubaté [31] [32] |
Indra Devi | 1899–2002 | 102 | Russian-American yogi [33] |
Bhante Dharmawara | 1889?–1999 | 110? | Cambodian-born monk and educator [34] |
Ralph Edward Dodge | 1907–2008 | 101 | American bishop of the Methodist Church [35] |
George Duggan | 1912–2012 | 100 | New Zealand Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, seminary professor and writer [36] |
Ephraim Einhorn | 1918–2021 | 103 | Austrian rabbi based in Taiwan [37] |
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv | 1910–2012 | 102 | Israeli rabbi [38] |
Hubertus Ernst | 1917–2017 | 100 | Dutch Roman Catholic bishop [39] |
Christopher Evans | 1909–2012 | 102 | English chaplain and theologian [40] |
Sophia Lyon Fahs | 1876–1978 | 101 | American Unitarian minister, educator and writer [41] |
Vincent Foy | 1915–2017 | 101 | Canadian Roman Catholic cleric and theologian [42] |
Eugene Maxwell Frank | 1907–2009 | 101 | American religious leader and Methodist Church bishop [43] |
Reginald C. Fuller | 1908–2011 | 102 | British Roman Catholic priest [44] |
Irineos Galanakis | 1911–2013 | 101 | Greek Orthodox bishop [45] |
José de Jesús García Ayala | 1910–2014 | 103 | Mexican Roman Catholic bishop [46] |
Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia | 1915–2018 | 102 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop [47] |
Peter Leo Gerety | 1912–2016 | 104 | American Roman Catholic bishop [48] |
Davuldena Gnanissara Thero | 1915–2017 | 101 | Sri Lankan scholar Buddhist monk and supreme Mahanayaka of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Nikaya [49] |
René Henry Gracida | 1923– | 100 | American Bishop [50] |
Maxine Grimm | 1914–2017 | 102 | American LDS Church leader [51] |
Ezekiel Guti | 1923–2023 | 100 | Zimbabwean evangelist [52] |
Theodore Heck | 1901–2009 | 108 | American Benedictine monk [53] |
Florence S. Jacobsen | 1913–2017 | 103 | American President of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association [54] |
Meir Just | 1908–2010 | 101 | Dutch Chief Rabbi [55] |
Augoustinos Kantiotes | 1907–2010 | 103 | Greek Orthodox bishop [56] |
Gregory of Khandzta | 759–861 | 101–102 | Georgian saint of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church [57] |
Hossein Wahid Khorasani | 1921– | 103 | Iranian ayatollah and author [58] |
Myer S. Kripke | 1914–2014 | 100 | American rabbi [59] |
Nolan Bailey Harmon | 1892–1993 | 100 | American Methodist bishop and author [60] |
Augustine Hoey | 1915–2017 | 101 | English Anglican priest [61] |
Hosius of Corduba (also known as Osius or Ossius) | 256–359 | 102 | Bishop of Corduba (now Córdoba, Spain) [62] |
Edward Howard | 1877–1983 | 105 | American Roman Catholic archbishop [63] |
Ben Huan | 1907–2012 | 105 | Chinese Buddhist [64] |
Damián Iguacén Borau | 1916–2020 | 104 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop [65] |
Isaac of Armenia | 338–439 | 100–101 | Parthian Catholicos of Armenia [66] |
John the Silent | 454–558 | 104 | Greek Christian saint [67] |
Yitzhak Kaduri | 1899?/1900?–2006 | 106? | Iraqi-born Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist [68] |
Mordecai Kaplan | 1881–1983 | 102 | Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Reconstructionist Judaism [69] |
Consolata Kline | 1916–2016 | 100 | American Roman Catholic sister [70] |
Guillermo Leaden | 1913–2014 | 100 | Argentine Roman Catholic bishop [71] |
Felice Leonardo | 1915–2015 | 100 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop [72] |
Géry Leuliet | 1910–2015 | 104 | French Roman Catholic bishop [73] |
Albert Malbois | 1915–2017 | 101 | French Roman Catholic bishop [74] |
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin | 1912–2015 | 102 | American Roman Catholic bishop [75] |
Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero | 1909–2012 | 102 | Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Mahanayaka of Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya [76] |
Antonio Rosario Mennonna | 1906–2009 | 103 | Italian Roman Catholic bishop [77] |
Halvor Midtbø | 1883–1985 | 101 | Norwegian priest and temperance activist [78] |
Richard Millard | 1914–2018 | 103 | American episcopal prelate and bishop of California (1960–1978) [79] |
William McElwee Miller | 1892–1993 | 100 | American missionary and author [80] |
Francesco Minerva | 1904–2004 | 100 | Italian archbishop emeritus of Lecce [81] |
Narcissus of Jerusalem | c. 99?–c. 215 | 116? | Ancient Roman Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem [82] |
Oswald von Nell-Breuning | 1890–1991 | 101 | German Roman Catholic theologician and sociologist [83] |
Nguyen Khac Ngu | 1909–2009 | 100 | Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop [84] |
Nguyen Van Thien | 1906–2012 | 106 | Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop [85] |
Arturo Paoli | 1912–2015 | 102 | Italian priest and missionary [86] |
Paul of Thebes | 227?–341 | 113? | Egyptian Christian saint [87] |
Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez | 1912–2012 | 100 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop [88] |
Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma | 1918–2021 | 103 | Indian bishop of Mar Thoma Syrian Church. [89] |
Bernardino Piñera | 1915–2020 | 104 | French-born Chilean Roman Catholic bishop [90] |
Muhammad Qadiri | 1552–1654 | 101 | Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher [91] |
Chatral Rinpoche | 1913–2015 | 102 | Tibetan Buddhist yogi [92] |
Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani | 1919–2022 | 102 | Iranian marja' [93] |
Nicholas Salamis | 1897–2005 | 108 | Greek-born Canadian Greek Orthodox priest [94] |
Tom Salmon | 1913–2013 | 100 | Irish Anglican cleric [95] |
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki | 1907–2014 | 107 | Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher [96] |
James Schaffer | 1910–2014 | 104 | American Christian leader [97] |
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg | 1910–2012 | 101 | Israeli rabbi [98] |
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman | 1913–2017 | 103–104 | Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek [99] |
Elazar Shach | 1899–2001 | 102 | Israeli leading Haredi rabbi [100] |
Eldred G. Smith | 1907–2013 | 106 | American former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [101] |
Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol | 1915–2016 | 100 | Dutch Roman Catholic bishop [102] |
Mack B. Stokes | 1911–2012 | 100 | American bishop of the Methodist Church [103] |
Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana | 1913–2013 | 100 | Supreme Patriarch of Thailand [104] |
Shivakumara Swami | 1907?–2019 | 111? | Indian religious leader [105] |
Tillit Sidney Teddlie | 1885–1987 | 102 | American hymnalist and pastor |
Tenkai | 1536–1643 | 106–107 | Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk [106] |
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero | 1896–1998 | 101 | Sri Lankan scholar- monk [107] |
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien | 1897–2007 | 110 | Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation [108] |
Marian Tumler | 1887–1987 | 100 | Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order [109] |
Agnès-Marie Valois | 1914–2018 | 103 | French nun and World War II nurse [110] |
Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla | 1921–2022 | 101 | Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church [111] |
Daniel Waldo | 1762–1864 | 101 | American clergyman [112] |
Warren Prall Watters | 1890–1992 | 102 | American founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch [113] |
Herbert George Welch | 1862–1969 | 106 | American Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University [114] |
Eleutherius Winance | 1909–2009 | 100 | Belgian monk and co-founder of St. Andrew's Abbey [115] |
Shmuel Wosner | 1913–2015 | 101 | Israeli Haredi rabbi [116] |
Gershon Yankelewitz | 1909–2014 | 105 | Belarusian-born American rabbi [117] |