RESIDENCE OF THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP
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.
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