Pal Dushmani

1440–died 1457) was a Roman Catholic hierarch active in Venetian territories on the Eastern Adriatic (Montenegro and Albania).

[8] His predecessor at the newly founded archbishopric of Craina, Uniate prelate of Greek origin Sabbas, was seated at the Prečista Krajinska since 1452, and holding on to Eastern Rite psychologically readied the people (Serbian Orthodox) to accept Catholicism.

[7] In 1454, when the Franciscans complained about persecution from Đurađ Branković, Pal became the Papal Nunciate in Serbia and Albania with the rights to preach for war against the Ottomans.

[7] In order to lend Dushmani freer hand, the Pope excluded Drivasto from the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Antivari, which led to bitter resistance from the latter.

[7] Dushmani's adaptive tactics in an Orthodox environment were presented to the Pope as betrayal of Catholicism: according to accusations, Dushmani claimed that the Orthodox Church was the right one and that it should be regarded higher than the Roman Church, allegedly prohibited that requests against his procedures be submitted to the Roman curia, and he himself acted as a Pope.