# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karel-marinus-choennie
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:48:34.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karel-marinus-choennie"
name: "Karel Marinus Choennie"
slug: "karel-marinus-choennie"
description: "Karel Martinus Choennie is a Surinamese Roman Catholic bishop. As of 2016, he is the current Bishop of Paramaribo. He is the first bishop in Suriname of Indian descent."
tagline: "Surinamese Roman Catholic bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karel_Choennie_2018_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1958-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.75
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.952809333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karel_Marinus_Choennie"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Choennie"
    title: "Karel Choennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Choennie"
    title: "Karel Choennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Choennie"
    title: "Karel Choennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Choennie"
    title: "Karel Choennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Choennie"
    title: "Karel Choennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Choennie"
    title: "Karel Choennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Marinus_Choennie"
    title: "Karel Marinus Choennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Хуни, Карел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karel_Martinus_Choennie"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21467493"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump