Franciscus van der Burch (1567–1644) was a bishop of Ghent and archbishop of Cambrai.

Franciscus was born in Ghent on 26 July 1567, the son of Jan van der Burch, a member of the Council of Flanders, and Camille Marguerite Diacetto, a native of Florence.

[2] Franciscus was educated partly in Utrecht, where his uncle Lambert van der Burch was dean of the chapter of St. Mary's Church,[3] and partly at the Jesuit college in Douai, before going on to study at Leuven University, where he graduated Licentiate of Laws.

[4] He resigned these offices to become a simple canon of the collegiate church in Mons.

The most important of these was the Maison de Sainte-Agnès, or Fondation Vanderburch, established in 1626,[5] which provided vocational education for poor girls between the ages of 12 and 18.