Giovanni Thomas Marnavich
Giovanni Thomas Marnavich or Joannes Thomas Marnavich or Ivan Tomko Mrnavić was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Bosnia.Biography
On 10 November 1631, Giovanni Thomas Marnavich was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Bosnia. On 23 November 1631, he was consecrated bishop by Luigi Caetani, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana, with Erasmo Paravicini, Bishop of Alessandria, and Bartol Kačić, Bishop of Makarska, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Bosnia until his death in 1635 or 1639.
In 1631, Marnavich published a pamphlet that Albanian national hero Scanderbeg was not an Albanian but rather a Slav. His claim was refuted by Frang Bardhi in his The Apology of Scanderbeg, published in Venice in 1636.Episcopal succession
While bishop, Marnavich was the principal co-consecrator of:
