The oldest living cardinal, following the death of Cardinal Mayer in 2010, is Ersilio Tonini, the Archbishop Emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia ( born 1914, elevated 1994 ).

* 1926 – Desmond Connell, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin

* 1931 – Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston,

If an archbishop resigns his see without being transferred to another, as in the case of retirement or assignment to head a department of the Roman Curia, the word " emeritus " is added to his former title, and he is called Archbishop Emeritus of his former see.

There is no Archbishop Emeritus of a titular see: an archbishop who holds a titular see keeps it until death or until transferred to another see.

Prior to that appointment, Foley was President Emeritus of Pontifical Council for Social Communications and Titular Archbishop of Neapolis in Proconsulari.

Recipients are also leaders of religion, including Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore William H. Keeler, Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and Howard W. Hunter, 14th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

From his installation on February 15, 2006 until the acceptance of his resignation on July 27, 2012, the archdiocese was led by Archbishop Emeritus George Hugh Niederauer, formerly the bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City.

Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, the Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Birmingham ( 1929 – 2007 ), was his cousin.

He is currently President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State, having previously served as Bishop of Gaylord from 1971 to 1981 and Archbishop of Detroit from 1981 to 1990.

* Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu ( Nobel Peace Prize Laureate )

The institute's patron is Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Retired bishops and archbishops were also given titular sees, but the common practice now is to name them Bishop or Archbishop Emeritus of the see they retired from.

Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum ( February 2, 1921-May 18, 2004 ) was Archbishop Emeritus of Dakar ( Senegal ).

* Antony Powathil, Emeritus Archbishop of Changnacherry of the Roman Catholic Syro-Malabar Church

Giovanni Canestri ( born 30 September 1918 ) is an Italian Catholic clergyman, currently Archbishop Emeritus of Genoa.

* Edward Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York

* James Patrick Keleher, Archbishop Emeritus of Kansas City in Kansas

Cardinal William Keeler, Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, and one of the many champions of the restoration project, completed the restoration without dipping into the coffers of the Archdiocese, instead using private funds donated for the sole purpose of the restoration.

Pastor Reet Eru officiated, and Archbishop Emeritus Kuno Pajula gave the sermon.

Recent Celebrants have included: The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2012 ); The Reverend Paul Keane, Old Oratorian and Chaplain to the University of Essex ( 2011 ); The Very Reverend Richard Duffield, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and Promoter of the Cause of Canonisation for John Henry Cardinal Newman ( 2010 ); The Very Reverend Robert Byrne, Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 2009 ); The Right Reverend Patrick O ' Donoghue, Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster ( 2008 ); The Right Reverend Dom Aidan Bellenger, Abbot of Downside ( 2007 ); Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville, Archbishop Emeritus of Birmingham ( 2006 ); The Right Reverend Dom Cuthbert Brogan, Abbot of Farnborough ( 2005 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2004 ); The Right Reverend Bishop George Stack, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2003 ); His Eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O ’ Connor, Archbishop of Westminster ( 2002 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds ( 2001 ); Bishop Victor Guazzelli, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2000 ); The Abbot of Ampleforth ( 1999 ); The Catholic Chaplain to Harrow School ( 1998 ); the Provost of the London Oratory ( 1997 ); the Apostolic Nuncio ( 1996 ); His Eminence George Basil Cardinal Hume ( 1995 ); Dom Stanislaus Hobbs of St Benedict ’ s Abbey, Ealing ( 1994 ); the Master of St Benet ’ s Hall, Oxford ( 1993 ); and the Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 1992 ).

* 1999 – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Previous winners of the international Bajaj Prize include Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat of the United Kingdom, and Professor Johan Galtung of ( Norway ).

Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu lived in Munsieville from the age of age.

The Dalai Lama, Tibet, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Guatemala, Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, Mairead Maguire, Northern Ireland, Peace People, Jose Ramos Horta, East Timor, International Peace Bureau, Oscar Arias Sánchez, President of Costa Rica, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina, Lech Wałęsa, Poland, Former President of Republic of Poland ( all of them Nobel Peace Prize Laureates ), Tarja Halonen, President of Finland, et al.

Former guests include Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter, and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

* Introduction to Flight, John D. Anderson, Jr., McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-299071-6 – The author is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.

He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 12 books.

* John Perkins, scholar, artist, author, Under Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Controller of the State of Michigan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkley and system-wide, President of the University of Delaware, and former Chairman of the Board of Dunn and Bradstreet.

* Merle Lawrence, Professor Emeritus of Otolaryngology, Physiology and Psychology at the University of Michigan, first Director of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, and the author and co-author of several books.

Gordon Earle Moore ( born January 3, 1929 ) is an American co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law ( published in an article April 19, 1965 in Electronics Magazine ).

* John Navone, SJ, Professor Emeritus, Theologian, and prolific author

Honda continues to serve as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Co-chair of the Democratic Caucus ’ New Media Working Group, House Democratic Senior Whip and is the original author of the Equity and Excellence Commission now housed in the US Department of Education.

John Andrew Sutherland ( born 9 October 1938 ) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature, newspaper columnist and author.

John DeFrancis ( August 31, 1911 – January 2, 2009, chinese: 約翰 · 德范克 ) was an American linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies at the

* Brock McElheran ( Professor Emeritus ), conductor and author.

* Robert Washburn ( Professor Emeritus ), composer, author and educator.

* Arthur Frackenpohl ( Professor Emeritus ), composer and author.

He is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and an author on legal history.

Robert P. Pula, ( 1928 – 2004 ) was a Director Emeritus of the Institute of General Semantics, author of A General-Semantics Glossary, and a composer.

* John Navone, SJ, prominent Jesuit priest, theologian, author, speaker, raconteur, and retired Professor Emeritus of the Pontifical Gregorian University.

* John Henry Baker ( professor ) ( born 1936 ), American author and professor Emeritus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

Barry Cunliffe, distinguished Professor Emeritus of European Archaeology and author of ' Facing the Ocean ' ( 2001 ) wrote the introduction to Quinn's ' Atlantean Irish '.

* Rudy Wiebe-Canadian author ; Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992

* Daniel Migliore-World renowned theologian and author ; Professor Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary.

William Harmon ( born 1938 ) is James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of five books of poetry and editor of A Handbook to Literature.

* Germaine Greer, Eminent author ; Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick

Tex Sample in October, 2008Tex Sample ( born December 28, 1934 ) is a specialist in church and society, a storyteller, author, and the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the St. Paul School of Theology, a United Methodist seminary in Kansas City, MO where he taught from 1967 – 1999.