# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-vanbuel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:54:47.285Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-vanbuel"
name: "Albert Vanbuel"
slug: "albert-vanbuel"
description: "Albert Vanbuel is a Belgian Salesian missionary and former bishop of Kaga-Bandoro in the Central African Republic. He was educated at the Don Bosco College in Hechtel and entered the Salesian novitiate in 1958. He made his perpetual vows in 1965, and was ordained priest in 1967. He studied Religious and Moral Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain, graduating in 1969, and followed this with a degree in Theology in 1971."
tagline: "Salesian missionary and bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bp_Albert_Vanbuel_SDB.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1940-12-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.33
  momentum:             18.40909090909091
  historical:           9.402124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Vanbuel"
    title: "Albert Vanbuel"
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    title: "البيرت ڤانبويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Albert Vanbuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Albert Vanbuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Vanbuel"
    title: "Albert Vanbuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Vanbuel"
    title: "Albert Vanbuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Vanbuel"
    title: "Albert Vanbuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Vanbuel"
    title: "Albert Vanbuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ванбёль, Альбер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump