an Ottoman scholar of Albanian origin and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. After he completed his education in Loreto he went to Ottoman Serbia and became a parish in Priština. From 1656 to 1677, when he resigned he served as Archbishop of Skopje, while from 1675 to 1677 he also served as apostolic administrator of Achrida. In his reports to Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Bogdani wrote about Toma Raspasani using complete version of his surname: Raspassanovich. In his report written on 10 August 1670, Bogdani explained that almost all Roman Catholics in Serbia were originally from Albania, without specifying their tribes.
