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Oldest and Youngest Bishops

BirthdateAgeNameCurrent Title
Oldest
23 Jan 1934 Bishop Gerhard PieschlAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Limburg, Germany
3 Oct 1939 Bishop František RadkovskýBishop Emeritus of Plzeň
19 Jan 1942 Bishop Josef HrdličkaAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Olomouc
2 Jan 1943 Archbishop Giuseppe LeanzaApostolic Nuncio
6 Nov 1943 Bishop Karel Herbst, S.D.B.Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}
22 Jan 1945 Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P.Archbishop Emeritus of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
18 Jul 1946 Michael Felix Cardinal Czerny, S.J.Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Roman Curia
20 Aug 1946 Bishop Vojtěch CikrleBishop Emeritus of Brno
29 Aug 1948 Archbishop Jan Bosco GraubnerArchbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}
8 Oct 1948 Bishop Jan BaxantBishop Emeritus of Litoměřice
18 Apr 1949 Bishop Josef KajnekAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hradec Králové
21 Sep 1950 Bishop Václav MalýAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}
Youngest
22 Mar 1972 Bishop Prokop BrožAuxiliary Bishop of Hradec Králové
16 Nov 1971 Archbishop Stanislav Přibyl, C.Ss.R.Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
15 Aug 1970 Bishop Martin DavidBishop of Ostrava-Opava
16 Aug 1967 Bishop Tomáš HolubBishop of Plzeň
25 Jul 1966 Archbishop Josef NuzíkArchbishop of Olomouc
15 Jun 1966 Bishop Zdenek WasserbauerAuxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}
17 Oct 1965 Bishop Pavel KonzbulBishop of Brno
10 May 1961 Bishop Vlastimil KročilBishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}
21 Oct 1958 Archbishop Eugene Martin NugentApostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic
25 Sep 1958 Bishop Jan VokálBishop of Hradec Králové
18 Dec 1956 Archbishop Jude Thaddeus OkoloApostolic Nuncio to Haiti
16 Feb 1956 Bishop Antonín BaslerAuxiliary Bishop of Olomouc

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