In the same year, Toma returned to Split, and supported Hvar Rebellion against Venice, under the leadership of Matija Ivanić.

After Skradin was taken by the Turks, Toma was appointed by the Pope as the bishop of Trogir in 1524, but he soon resigned the honor due to his old age.

He was described by the Venetian historian Marino Sanuto the Younger, during Niger's stay in Venice in 1527 in the following terms: "He has a long white beard.

[5] Toma was well acquainted with famous Croatian nobles and writers like Vinko Pribojević, Marko Marulić and Šimun Kožičić Benja.

He wrote foreword to Vinko Pribojević's De origine successibusque Slavorum, poem Ad Leonem decimum carmen against Luther and historical work Pontificum Salonitanorum et Spalatensium series ex Romanis et variis antiquis monumentis collecta a viro Dalma patriae et nationis suae amantissimo.

[6] In his correspondence with Šimun Kožičić Benja in 1531, he was also alleged to be writing a book titled "Knjižice od hrvacke zemlje", a history of Croatia.