# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-vangheluwe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:06:18.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-vangheluwe"
name: "Roger Vangheluwe"
slug: "roger-vangheluwe"
description: "Roger Joseph Vangheluwe is a Belgian former prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Bruges from 1985 to 2010, when he resigned after admitting that as a priest and bishop he had sexual relations over 15 years with his nephew, who was a minor when it began. He later described similar behavior with a second nephew, also a minor, over the course of a year. Pope Francis laicized him in March 2024. Belgium's statute of limitations prevented him from being prosecuted."
tagline: "Roman Roman Catholic bishop (1936–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Monseigneur_Roger_Vangheluwe_Brugge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1936-11-07"
deathDate: "2026-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             3.631578947368422
  historical:           10.76584133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "روجر فانجيلوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
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    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
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    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
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    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
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    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vangheluwe"
    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Joseph_Vangheluwe"
    title: "Roger Joseph Vangheluwe"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vangheluwe"
    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
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    title: "Roger Joseph Vangheluwe"
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    title: "Roger Vangheluwe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump