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Seniority by Priestly Ordination

Most Senior


Ordained
Priest
YearsNameCurrent Title
25 May 1933 Bishop Francis Hong Yong-hoBishop of P’yŏng-yang, Korea (North)
8 Jul 1933 Bishop Géry-Jacques-Charles LeulietBishop Emeritus of Amiens, France
21 Dec 1935 Bishop Bernard Joseph McLaughlinAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA
18 Apr 1937 Ersilio Cardinal ToniniArchbishop Emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy
9 May 1937 Bishop José de Jesús Garcia AyalaBishop Emeritus of Campeche, México
29 Jun 1938 Bishop Albert-Georges-Yves MalboisBishop Emeritus of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
24 Jul 1938 Bishop Felice LeonardoBishop Emeritus of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
8 Apr 1939 Bishop Anselmo Zarza BernalBishop Emeritus of León, Guanajuato, México
29 Jun 1939 Archbishop Peter Leo GeretyArchbishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
6 Aug 1939 Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.Bishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
23 Dec 1939 Domenico Cardinal BartolucciOfficial Emeritus of the Roman Curia - Other
3 Feb 1940 Fiorenzo Cardinal AngeliniPresident Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, Roman Curia
23 May 1940 Archbishop Loris Francesco CapovillaPrelate Emeritus of Loreto, Italy
26 May 1940 Bishop Giovanni BenedettiBishop Emeritus of Foligno, Italy
29 Jun 1940 Archbishop Armando Círio, O.S.I.Archbishop Emeritus of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
14 Jul 1940 Bishop Antonio José Ramírez SalaverríaBishop Emeritus of Maturín, Venezuela
10 Aug 1940 Bishop Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, M.S.C.Bishop Emeritus of Amboina, Indonesia
24 Nov 1940 Bishop Innocent Hilarion Lotocky, O.S.B.M.Bishop Emeritus of Saint Nicholas of Chicago (Ukrainian), Illinois, USA
15 Dec 1940 Bishop Caetano Antônio Lima dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap.Bishop Emeritus of Ilhéus, Baia, Brazil
12 Apr 1941 Giovanni Cardinal CanestriArchbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
7 Jun 1941 Bishop Hubertus Cornelis Antonius ErnstBishop Emeritus of Breda, Netherlands
7 Jun 1941 Bishop Damián Iguacén BorauBishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain
23 Nov 1941 Bishop Guillermo Leaden, S.D.B.Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina
23 Nov 1941 Bishop John MackeyBishop Emeritus of Auckland, New Zealand
7 Dec 1941 Archbishop Jaime Luiz CoelhoArchbishop Emeritus of Maringá, Parana, Brazil
14 Dec 1941 Archbishop José de Jesús Pimiento RodriguezArchbishop Emeritus of Manizales, Colombia
20 Dec 1941 Archbishop José Maria PiresArchbishop Emeritus of Paraíba, Paraiba, Brazil
15 Mar 1942 Bishop Javier Naranjo VillegasBishop Emeritus of Santa Marta, Colombia
30 May 1942 Bishop Silvério Jarbas Paulo de Albuquerque, O.F.M.Bishop Emeritus of Feira de Santana, Baia, Brazil
28 Jun 1942 Bishop Jorge Scarso, O.F.M. Cap.Bishop Emeritus of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
25 Jul 1942 Bishop Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, S.M.M.Bishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia
19 Dec 1942 Bishop Odo Fusi PecciBishop Emeritus of Senigallia, Italy
24 Feb 1943 Bishop Bernard Ferdinand PoppAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Antonio, Texas, USA
25 Apr 1943 Archbishop Hovhannes TcholakianArchbishop of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey
1 May 1943 Bishop Timothy Joseph LyneAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 May 1943 Bishop Georges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I.Bishop Emeritus of Pala, Chad
23 May 1943 Bishop Michael Pearse LaceyAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 Jun 1943 Bishop Aldo Mongiano, I.M.C.Bishop Emeritus of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil
27 Jun 1943 Bishop Victor Garaygordóbil BerrizbeitiaPrelate Emeritus of Babahoyo, Ecuador
8 Apr 1944 Bishop Servílio Conti, I.M.C.Prelate Emeritus of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil
8 Apr 1944 Archbishop Carlos Quintero ArceArchbishop Emeritus of Hermosillo, Sonora, México
16 Apr 1944 Father Jerzy Jan Tomziński, O.S.P.P.E.Prior General Emeritus of Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit
18 May 1944 Archbishop Girolamo PrigioneApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to México
3 Jun 1944 Bishop Martin Nicholas LohmullerAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
16 Jun 1944 Bishop Laurent NoëlBishop Emeritus of Trois Rivières, Québec, Canada
25 Jun 1944 Carlo Cardinal FurnoGrand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Roman Curia
20 Aug 1944 Archbishop Luigi BarbaritoApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
3 Sep 1944 Archbishop Salvatore CassisaArchbishop Emeritus of Monreale, Italy
22 Oct 1944 Bishop Salvatore NicolosiBishop Emeritus of Noto, Italy
5 Nov 1944 Archbishop Ignazio CannavòArchbishop Emeritus of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
8 Dec 1944 Bishop Jožef SmejAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Maribor, Slovenia
24 Dec 1944 Archbishop József SzendiArchbishop Emeritus of Veszprém, Hungary
24 Feb 1945 Bishop Paul-Marie François Rousset, Ist. del PradoBishop Emeritus of Saint-Etienne, France
29 Jun 1945 Bishop Joseph Francis MaguireBishop Emeritus of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
8 Jul 1945 Stanisław Kazimierz Cardinal Nagy, S.C.I.Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Scala
15 Jul 1945 Bishop Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres GonzálezBishop Emeritus of Melo, Uruguay
12 Aug 1945 Bishop Dante BerniniBishop Emeritus of Albano, Italy
12 Aug 1945 Bishop Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B.Bishop Emeritus of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy
22 Sep 1945 Bishop Abel Costas MontañoBishop Emeritus of Tarija, Bolivia
22 Sep 1945 Jorge María Cardinal MejíaArchivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives, Roman Curia
1 Nov 1945 Bishop Antônio Afonso de Miranda, S.D.N.Bishop Emeritus of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil
30 Nov 1945 Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns, O.F.M.Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
22 Dec 1945 Archbishop Eurico Dias NogueiraArchbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal
3 Feb 1946 Archbishop Giuseppe CasaleArchbishop Emeritus of Foggia-Bovino, Italy
7 Apr 1946 Archbishop Bruno ForestiBishop Emeritus of Brescia, Italy
20 Apr 1946 Gilberto Cardinal AgustoniPrefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura, Roman Curia
20 Apr 1946 Bishop José Guadalupe Padilla LozanoBishop Emeritus of Veracruz, México
26 May 1946 Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la ParraBishop Emeritus of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México
1 Jun 1946 Archbishop Raymond Gerhardt HunthausenArchbishop Emeritus of Seattle, Washington, USA
9 Jun 1946 Bishop Eugène Moke MotsüriAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
15 Jun 1946 Bishop Francis Anthony QuinnBishop Emeritus of Sacramento, California, USA
15 Jun 1946 Bishop Eloy Tato Losada, I.E.M.E.Bishop Emeritus of Magangué, Colombia
16 Jun 1946 Bishop Gérard Tremblay, P.S.S.Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Montréal, Québec, Canada
23 Jun 1946 Archbishop Luis Alberto Luna Tobar, O.C.D.Archbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, Ecuador
29 Jun 1946 Bishop Anton BogeticBishop Emeritus of Poreč i Pula, Croatia
13 Jul 1946 Achille Cardinal SilvestriniPrefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Roman Curia
20 Jul 1946 Bishop Spiridon MattarBishop Emeritus of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (Melkite Greek), Sao Paulo, Brazil
4 Aug 1946 Bishop Luigi BettazziBishop Emeritus of Ivrea, Italy
4 Aug 1946 Abbot Carmelo Domênico Recchia, O. Cist.Abbot Emeritus of Claraval, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3 Feb 1947 Archbishop George Hamilton Pearce, S.M.Archbishop Emeritus of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
9 Feb 1947 Bishop Jacques LandriaultBishop Emeritus of Timmins, Ontario, Canada
22 Mar 1947 Archbishop Arturo Antonio Szymanski RamírezArchbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, México
5 Apr 1947 Bishop Vasco Giuseppe BertelliBishop Emeritus of Volterra, Italy
5 Apr 1947 Archbishop Bernardino Piñera CarvalloArchbishop Emeritus of La Serena, Chile
8 Apr 1947 Bishop Thomas Joseph ConnollyBishop Emeritus of Baker, Oregon, USA
31 May 1947 Bishop Paul-Émile CharbonneauBishop Emeritus of Hull, Québec, Canada
31 May 1947 Bishop Odore Joseph GendronBishop Emeritus of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
15 Jun 1947 Archbishop James Martin HayesArchbishop Emeritus of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
22 Jun 1947 Bishop Myles McKeonBishop Emeritus of Bunbury, Australia
28 Jun 1947 Archbishop Giovanni MorettiApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium
28 Jun 1947 Archbishop Pierre Marie Léon Augustin PlateauArchbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France
29 Jun 1947 Archbishop Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, O.F.M.Bishop Emeritus of Perpignan-Elne, France
29 Jun 1947 Bishop Augusto LauroBishop Emeritus of San Marco Argentano-Scalea, Italy
29 Jun 1947 Bishop Andrea VeggioAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Verona, Italy
3 Jul 1947 Archbishop Stanislaw SzymeckiArchbishop Emeritus of Białystok, Poland
6 Jul 1947 Archbishop Vincenzo FrancoArchbishop Emeritus of Otranto, Italy
13 Jul 1947 Archbishop Carlo CurisApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Canada
13 Jul 1947 Roger Marie Élie Cardinal EtchegarayPresident Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Roman Curia
13 Jul 1947 Silvano Cardinal PiovanelliArchbishop Emeritus of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
20 Jul 1947 Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, B.A.Patriarchal Vicar Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine

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