Albert Vanbuel (born 5 December 1940) is a Belgian
Salesian missionary and former bishop of
Kaga-Bandoro
Kaga-Bandoro is a market town and capital of the Nana-Grébizi prefecture of the Central African Republic. It represents the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaga–Bandoro.
History
On 25 December 2012 rebels from Séléka coalition took ...
in the
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...
. 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.
After holding several appointments in his order in Belgium, and working some time as a parish priest and youth worker, he became a missionary in Central Africa in 1994. On 16 July 2005,
Pope Benedict XVI
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appointed him bishop of Kaga-Bandoro.
On 9 June 2011, as president of the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace, he sent an appeal to the international community "to provide the necessary logistical and material support to the fight against the growing insecurity in the country".
Vanbuel offered his resignation in 2015 and
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
accepted it on 27 September 2015. He was succeeded by
Tadeusz Kusy OFM.
Rinuncia e successione del Vescovo di Kaga-Bandoro (Repubblica Centrafricana)
''Bollettino'', 27 September 2015 (in Italian)
References
External links
*https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/mar/07/central-african-republic-humanitarian-crisis
*https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/27/central-african-republic-rebels-seleka
*http://ncronline.org/news/global/central-african-republic-bishops-christians-subject-pillage-rape
*http://www.caritas.org/2013/01/bishops-call-ceasefire-central-african-republic/
*http://www.fides.org/en/news/33643-AFRICA_CENTRAL_AFRICA_Planned_destruction_of_Christian_churches_the_Bishops_denounce#.U5GNJJSSwQ4
*http://fr.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/03/11/centrafrique_:_loin_de_bangui,_la_m%C3%A9diation_dun_%C3%A9v%C3%AAque_/fr1-780340
*http://212.77.9.18/search?q=vanbuel&btnG.x=11&btnG.y=6&btnG=Recherche&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=fr&proxystylesheet=fr&site=fr&filter=p&getfields=urlPhoto
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1940 births
Living people
Salesian bishops
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic
Catholic University of Leuven alumni
People from Heusden-Zolder
Roman Catholic bishops of Kaga-Bandoro