Maurice Choriol
Mauritius Choriol was a French-born German Roman Catholic priest and abbot.
Choriol worked as a renowned chef in Switzerland before attending the University of Fribourg and his ordination as a priest in 1993. He joined the Benedictines and became a German naturalised citizen in 2002. Later he was elected an abbot of the Tholey Abbey.
Choriol died of a heart attack at the hospital in Sankt Wendel, on 9 July 2025, at the age of 65.