Marie-Édouard Mununu

Marie-Édouard Mununu-Kasiala (15 August 1936 – 5 December 2022) was a Congolese Roman Catholic prelate and Trappist monk. Prior of the Monastère Notre-Dame de l'Emmanuel de Kasanza [fr] in 1975, he was auxiliary bishop of Kikwit from 1985 to 1986 and subsequently bishop of Kikwit from 1986 to 2016.

Mununu was one of the first Trappist monks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He entered the Monastère Notre-Dame de l'Emmanuel de Kasanza upon its foundation in 1958. On 20 August 1967, he was ordained a priest, the first Trappist priest in the country. In December 1975, he was elected Prior of the monastery.

On 8 November 1984, Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Kikwit. On 24 March 1985, he was consecrated Bishop of Kikwit by his predecessor, Alexander Mbuka-Nzundu [de]. On 19 November 2016, he retired from this position after more than 30 years in the role.

Marie-Édouard Mununu died in Brussels on 5 December 2022, at the age of 86.