Albert Vanbuel (born 5 December 1940) 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. Vanbuel offered his resignation in 2015 and Pope Francis accepted it on 27 September 2015. He was succeeded by Tadeusz Kusy OFM.