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.

  Living

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 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[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]
Blanche Gates	1918–2023	105	Canadian Anglican liturgist[48]
Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	1924–	100	Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop
Peter Leo Gerety	1912–2016	104	American Roman Catholic bishop[49]
Davuldena Gnanissara Thero	1915–2017	101	Sri Lankan scholar Buddhist monk and supreme Mahanayaka of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Nikaya[50]
René Henry Gracida	1923–	102	American Bishop[51]
Maxine Grimm	1914–2017	102	American LDS Church leader[52]
Ezekiel Guti	1923–2023	100	Zimbabwean evangelist[53]
Nolan Bailey Harmon	1892–1993	100	American Methodist bishop and author[54]
Theodore Heck	1901–2009	108	American Benedictine monk[55]
Augustine Hoey	1915–2017	101	English Anglican priest[56]
Hosius of Corduba (also known as Osius or Ossius)	256–359	102	Bishop of Corduba (now Córdoba, Spain)[57]
Edward Howard	1877–1983	105	American Roman Catholic archbishop[58]
Ben Huan	1907–2012	104	Chinese Buddhist[59]
Damián Iguacén Borau	1916–2020	104	Spanish Roman Catholic bishop[60]
Isaac of Armenia	338–439	100–101	Parthian Catholicos of Armenia[61]
Florence S. Jacobsen	1913–2017	103	American President of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association[62]
John the Silent	454–558	104	Greek Christian saint[63]
Meir Just	1908–2010	101	Dutch Chief Rabbi[64]
Yitzhak Kaduri	1899?/1900?–2006	106?	Iraqi-born Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist[65]
Shmuel Kamenetsky	1924–	100	American rabbi [66]
Augoustinos Kantiotes	1907–2010	103	Greek Orthodox bishop[67]
Mordecai Kaplan	1881–1983	102	Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Reconstructionist Judaism[68]
Gregory of Khandzta	759–861	101–102	Georgian saint of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church[69]
Hossein Wahid Khorasani	1921–	104	Iranian ayatollah and author[70]
Consolata Kline	1916–2016	100	American Roman Catholic sister[71]
Myer S. Kripke	1914–2014	100	American rabbi[72]
Guillermo Leaden	1913–2014	100	Argentine Roman Catholic bishop[73]
Felice Leonardo	1915–2015	100	Italian Roman Catholic bishop[74]
Géry Leuliet	1910–2015	104	French Roman Catholic bishop[75]
Albert Malbois	1915–2017	101	French Roman Catholic bishop[76]
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin	1912–2015	102	American Roman Catholic bishop[77]
Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero	1909–2012	102	Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Mahanayaka of Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya[78]
Antonio Rosario Mennonna	1906–2009	103	Italian Roman Catholic bishop[79]
Halvor Midtbø	1883–1985	101	Norwegian priest and temperance activist[80]
Richard Millard	1914–2018	103	American episcopal prelate and bishop of California (1960–1978)[81]
William McElwee Miller	1892–1993	100	American missionary and author[82]
Francesco Minerva	1904–2004	100	Italian archbishop emeritus of Lecce[83]
Narcissus of Jerusalem	c. 99?–c. 215	116?	Ancient Roman Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem[84]
Oswald von Nell-Breuning	1890–1991	101	German Roman Catholic theologician and sociologist[85]
Russell Marion Nelson	1924–	100	President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints[86]
Nguyễn Khắc Ngư	1909–2009	100	Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop[87]
Nguyễn Văn Thiện	1906–2012	106	Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop[88]
Arturo Paoli	1912–2015	102	Italian priest and missionary[89]
Paul of Thebes	227?–341	113?	Egyptian Christian saint[90]
Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez	1912–2012	100	Spanish Roman Catholic bishop[91]
Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma	1918–2021	103	Indian bishop of Mar Thoma Syrian Church.[92]
Bernardino Piñera	1915–2020	104	French-born Chilean Roman Catholic bishop[93]
Muhammad Qadiri	1552–1654	101	Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher[94]
Chatral Rinpoche	1913–2015	102	Tibetan Buddhist yogi[95]
Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani	1919–2022	102	Iranian marja'[96]
Nicholas Salamis	1897–2005	108	Greek-born Canadian Greek Orthodox priest[97]
Tom Salmon	1913–2013	100	Irish Anglican cleric[98]
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki	1907–2014	107	Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher[99]
James Schaffer	1910–2014	104	American Christian leader[100]
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg	1910–2012	101	Israeli rabbi[101]
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman	1913–2017	103–104	Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek[102]
Elazar Shach	1899–2001	102	Israeli leading Haredi rabbi[103]
Eldred G. Smith	1907–2013	106	American former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[104]
Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol	1915–2016	100	Dutch Roman Catholic bishop[105]
Mack B. Stokes	1911–2012	100	American bishop of the Methodist Church[106]
Shivakumara Swami	1907–2019	111	Indian religious leader[107]
Tillit Sidney Teddlie	1885–1987	102	American hymnalist and pastor
Tenkai	1536–1643	106–107	Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk[108]
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero	1896–1998	101	Sri Lankan scholar-monk[109]
Settimio Todisco	1924–2025	100	Italian Roman Catholic prelate[110]
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien	1897–2007	110	Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation[111]
Marian Tumler	1887–1987	100	Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order[112]
(Somdet Phra Sangharaja Chao Krommaluang) Vajirañāṇasaṃvara	1913–2013	100	19th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand[113]
Agnès-Marie Valois	1914–2018	103	French nun and World War II nurse[114]
Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla	1921–2022	101	Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church[115]
Daniel Waldo	1762–1864	101	American clergyman[116]
Warren Prall Watters	1890–1992	102	American founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch[117]
Herbert George Welch	1862–1969	106	American Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University[118]
Eleutherius Winance	1909–2009	100	Belgian monk and co-founder of St. Andrew's Abbey[119]
Shmuel Wosner	1913–2015	101	Israeli Haredi rabbi[120]
Gershon Yankelewitz	1909–2014	105	Belarusian-born American rabbi[121]