title: Marie-Édouard Mununu
text: # 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.
  
  ## Biography
  
  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.
  
  