Paris: The world's oldest person is now a nun from France. Sister Andrei, a member of Daughter of Charity monastic church at France, has been included in the Guinness Book of World Records following the death of 119 year old Japanese woman Kane Tanaka.

Aged 118 years old Andre is tha oldest person in the world.

She made headlines last year after she recovered from COVID-19 on World Day of the Sick, becoming the world’s oldest survivor of the virus.

Sr Andre goes to morning Mass every day despite being unable to see and said she had a secret to her longevity – “pray and drink a cup of chocolate every day”.

She was also reported as saying, “Daily happiness is being able to go and pray”.

Sr Andre was born in France on February 11, 1904 during the papacy of Pope Pius X and has seen 10 popes in her lifetime.

She was raised in Alès, a town in the Occitanie region of southern France, and grew up in a protestant family before she converted to Catholicism at the age of 19.

She cared for the elderly people and orphaned children at a hospital for 28 years.

In 1944, at the height of the Second World War, she joined the Daughters of Charity at the age of 40.