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
Laban Ainsworth	1757–1858	100	American clergyman and pastor
Albert Jean Amateau	1889–1996	106	Turkish-born American Rabbi
Joseph Anderson	1889–1992	102	American general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Saint Anthony	251–356	105	Egyptian Christian saint
Corrado Bafile	1903–2005	101	Italian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero	1896–1998	101	Sri Lankan scholar-monk
Dmytro Blazheyovskyi	1910–2011	100	Ukrainian scientist and religious author
Henry Boehm	1775–1875	100	American clergyman and pastor
Joseph Oliver Bowers	1910–2012	102	Dominican Roman Catholic bishop
Loris Francesco Capovilla	1915–	108	Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
Jan van Cauwelaert	1914–	110	Belgian Roman Catholic bishop
Laurence Chaderton	1536–1640	103	English Anglican Puritan divine
Yehuda Chitrik	1899–2006	106	American Rabbi
James Burton Coffman	1905–2006	101	American Christian preacher and teacher
William C. Conway	1865–1969	104	American mysticism leader
Hosius of Corduba	256–359	102	Ancient Roman Catholic bishop of Córdoba, Spain
Jorge da Costa	1406–1508	101–102	Portuguese cardinal
Quirino De Ascaniis	1908–2009	100	Italian priest
Indra Devi	1899–2002	102	Indian yoga teacher
Bhante Dharmawara	1889–1999	110	Cambodian-born monk and educator
Ralph Edward Dodge	1907–2008	101	American bishop of The Methodist Church
George Duggan	1912–2012	100	New Zealand Catholic priest and apologist
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv	1910–2012	102	Israeli Rabbi
Christopher Evans	1909–2012	102	English chaplain and theologian
Sophia Lyon Fahs	1876–1978	101	American Unitarian minister, educator and writer
Eugene Maxwell Frank	1907–2009	101	American bishop of The Methodist Church
Reginald C. Fuller	1908–2011	102	British Catholic priest
José de Jesús García Ayala	1910–2014	103	Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia	1915–	108	Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
Peter Leo Gerety	1912–	111	American Roman Catholic bishop
Florence S. Jacobsen	1913–	111	American President of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association
Meir Just	1908–2010	101	Dutch Chief Rabbi
Augoustinos Kantiotes	1907–2010	103	Greek Orthodox bishop
Gregory of Khandzta	759–861	101–102	Georgian saint of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
Myer S. Kripke	1914–2014	100	American rabbi
Nolan Bailey Harmon	1892–1993	100	American Methodist bishop and author
Edward Howard	1877–1983	105	American Roman Catholic archbishop
Ben Huan	1907–2012	105	Chinese Buddhist
Isaac of Armenia	338–439	100–101	Parthian Catholicos of Armenia
John the Silent	452–558	106	Greek Christian saint
Yitzhak Kaduri	1899/1900–2006	106	Iraqi-born Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist
Mordecai Kaplan	1881–1983	102	Lithuanian founder of Reconstructionist Judaism
Guillermo Leaden	1913–2014	100	Argentine Roman Catholic bishop
Felice Leonardo	1915–2015	100	Italian Roman Catholic bishop
Géry Leuliet	1910–2015	104	French bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
Albert Malbois	1915–	108	French Roman Catholic bishop
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin	1912–2015	102	American Roman Catholic bishop
Antonio Rosario Mennonna	1906–2009	103	Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
Halvor Midtbø	1883–1995	101	Norwegian priest and temperance activist
William McElwee Miller	1892–1993	100	American missionary and author
Francesco Minerva	1904–2004	100	Italian archbishop emeritus of Lecce
Narcissus of Jerusalem	c. 99 – c. 215	116	Ancient Roman Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
Oswald von Nell-Breuning	1890–1991	101	German Roman Catholic theologician and sociologist
Nguyen Khac Ngu	1909–2009	100	Vietnamese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
Nguyen Van Thien	1906–2012	106	Vietnamese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez	1912–2012	100	Spanish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
Bernardino Piñera	1915–	108	French-born Chilean Roman Catholic bishop
Muhammad Qadiri	1552–1654	101	Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher
Chatral Rinpoche	1913–2015	102	Tibetan Buddhist yogi
Nicholas Salamis	1897–2005	108	Greek-born Canadian Greek Orthodox priest
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki	1907–2014	107	Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg	1910–2012	101	Israeli rabbi
Aharon Leib Shteinman	1914–	100-101	Israeli Haredi rabbi
Elazar Shach	1899–2001	102	Israeli leading Haredi rabbi
Eldred G. Smith	1907–2013	106	American former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol	1915–	108	Dutch Roman Catholic bishop
Mack B. Stokes	1911–2012	100	American bishop of the United Methodist Church
Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana	1913–2013	100	Supreme Patriarch of Thailand
Tillit Sidney Teddlie	1885–1987	102	American hymnalist and pastor
Tenkai	1536–1643	106–107	Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien	1897–2007	110	Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation
Marian Tumler	1887–1987	100	Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Daniel Waldo	1762–1864	101	American clergyman
Warren Prall Watters	1890–1992	102	American founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch
Herbert George Welch	1862–1969	106	American Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University
Eleutherius Winance	1909–2009	100	Belgian monk and co-founder of St. Andrew's Abbey
Shmuel Wosner	1913–2015	101	Israeli Haredi Rabbi
Gershon Yankelewitz	1909–2014	105	Belarusian-born American rabbi