VATICAN CITY: Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, involved in one of the biggest controversies ever to hit the Roman Catholic Church when he headed the Vatican bank, has died in the United States aged 84.
The ANSA news agency quoted sources from the diocese of Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday.
The 84-year-old US archbishop was indicted in Italy in 1982 as an accessory in the $3.5 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, an Italian bank with close ties to the Vatican.
However, he was never arrested because his Vatican status gave him immunity from prosecution in Italy.
The head of Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Calvi, was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London after the bank's collapse.
Five people are on trial in Italy for his murder.
