Mutu Paratene Kapa MBE (1870 – 10 November 1968) was a New Zealand tribal leader, orator, sportsman, and Anglican priest.
[1] In the 1964 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kapa was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the Māori people.
Kapa was very athletic in his youth and played numerous sports, including rowing, rugby, football, hockey, tennis and wood-chopping.
He was educated at Te Rau Theological College, Gisborne, and was ordained a deacon in 1907 and became a priest in 1911.
His tangihanga was held at Te Puea Memorial Marae, and he was buried at the St James Anglican Church in Māngere Bridge, Auckland.