Marie-Édouard Mununu

Monsignor

Marie-Édouard Mununu
Bishop Emeritus of Kikwit
Mgr Marie-Edouard Mununu.jpg
Mununu in 2010
ArchdioceseKinshasa
DioceseDiocese of Kikwit
Installed10 March 1986
Term ended19 November 2016
PredecessorAlexander Mbuka-Nzundu [de]
SuccessorTimothée Bodika Mansiyai [de]
Orders
Ordination20 August 1967
Consecration24 March 1985
by Alexander Mbuka-Nzundu
Personal details
Born
Marie-Édouard Mununu-Kasiala

(1936-08-15)15 August 1936
Buganda-Pindi, Belgian Congo
Died5 December 2022(2022-12-05) (aged 86)
Brussels, Belgium
NationalityCongolese
Previous post(s)Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae and Auxiliary Bishop of Kikwit (1984–1986)
EducationMonastère Notre-Dame de l'Emmanuel de Kasanza [fr]

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.


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