, a priest from a prominent banking family in northern Italy, who
had served ... Vatican's Secretariat of State for 20 years.
Montini
organized the bank not
only as a safe haven for the Vatican's own money but also as a channel through ... which Catholic
dioceses, missions, orders, and other entities could invest their funds. Even after
Montini
left the
Secretariat to become Archbishop of Milan in 1954, he continued overseeing the operations