After the death of José da Costa Nunes on 29 November 1976, Alberto di Jorio became the oldest member of the College of Cardinals until his own death in 1979.
Alberto Ginastera | Alberto Gonzales | Alberto Giacometti | Alberto Fujimori | Alberto Lattuada | Alberto Salazar | Alberto Burri | Alberto Breccia | Alberto Zaccheroni | Alberto Santos-Dumont | Alberto Magnelli | Alberto Cavalcanti | Alberto Ascari | Nacci Alberto | Alberto Vargas | Alberto Savinio | Alberto Romulo | Alberto Pérez-Gómez | Alberto Bevilacqua | Alberto Acosta | Alberto | Jorge Alberto Rodriguez | Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón | Alberto Mancini | Alberto Hurtado University | Alberto Granado | Alberto Cortina | Alberto Bigon | Alberto Antonini | Luis Alberto Spinetta |
Two years later, alongside Cardinals Maglione, Pietro Boetto, Nicola Canali, Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Alberto di Jorio, Giovanni Mercati, Raffaele Rossi, Carlo Salotti, Federico Tedeschini and Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, he sat on a papal commission analyzing the situation created by the Spanish Civil War and the implications the conflict had on the Roman Catholic clergy in Spain.