The Bank of the Holy Spirit (Italian:…
December 1605 CE
The Bank of the Holy Spirit (Italian: Il Banco di Santo Spirito; Latin: Banco de Spiritus Sanctus), founded by Pope Paul V on December 13, 1605, is the first national bank in Europe (as the bank of the Papal States), the first public deposit bank in Rome, and is to be the oldest continuously operating bank in Rome until its merger in 1992.