Karel Martinus Choennie (born 20 December 1958) is a Surinamese Roman Catholic bishop.

In 1976, he left for the Netherlands to study pedagogy at Radboud University Nijmegen, and obtained his bachelor's degree in 1978.

[2] Next, he went to the monastery of Mount Saint Benedict in Trinidad and Tobago,[3] and graduated in theology at the University of the West Indies in 1984.

[2] On 11 November 2015, Choennie was appointed Bishop of Paramaribo,[5] and consecrated on 24 January 2016 by Wilhelmus de Bekker [nl].

When he criticized the amnesty for December Murders, he was labelled enemy of the people by President Desi Bouterse.