1754
The
building formerly used as the residence of the Catholic Archbishop
stands on the hill of Ayios Athanasios, near the Catholic Cathedral
and opposite the Loggia Nobillei, at the other end of what
is now Dimarcheiou Square. It was later used as a Lawcourt;
it was restored after the bombardment of 1943 and now houses the
Bank of Greece. The palace was built in 1754 to replace an earlier
building of 1630 that had been destroyed by earthquake; this latter
had been erected for one of the two consiglieri of the town,
and was ceded to the Catholic Archbishop in 1632, when the Catholic
Cathedral was transferred to the church of San
Giacomo.