Dominic Thopia

Dominic Thopia (c. 1300s–1382) was born into the Thopia family of Durrës and made his career in the Church. Educated in Italy, he joined the Dominicans, and in 1336 King Robert of Naples made him court chaplain and adviser.

From 1345 he was the order's vicar for Dalmatia and Durrës and founded its house at Shkodër. Louis I of Hungary backed him as bishop of Ston and Korčula in 1350. His 1360 bid for Dubrovnik's vacant archbishopric collapsed when the council, fearing for the city's autonomy, expelled him.

As archbishop of Zadar from 1368 to 1376 he earned the name Father of the Poor by giving away his possessions, and he supported his nephew Karl Thopia's takeover of Durrës. Moved to Bosnia's bishopric in 1376, he died in 1382.