Exhibit 24.1

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

                                 PNC Bank Corp.
                               Shelf Registration

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned Directors and/or
Officers of PNC Bank Corp. (the "Corporation"), a Pennsylvania corporation,
hereby names, constitutes and appoints Randall C. King or Thomas R. Moore, or
either of them, individually, with full power of substitution, such person's
true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to execute in such person's name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities, a Registration Statement on Form S-3
(or other appropriate form) for the registration under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, of (i) guarantees by the Corporation of PNC Funding Corp's
unsecured debt securities ("Debt Securities"), which Registration Statement
shall also relate to such Debt Securities, (ii) shares of the Corporation's
common stock, par value $5 per share ("Common Stock"), and (iii) shares of the
Corporation's preferred stock, par value $1 per share ("Preferred Stock"), with
a proposed maximum aggregate offering price for such Debt Securities, Common
Stock and Preferred Stock of $1,500,000,000, plus an undetermined number of
shares of the Corporation's Common Stock issuable upon conversion of shares of
the Preferred Stock to the extent any of such shares of Preferred Stock are by
their terms convertible into Common Stock, and an undetermined number of shares
of Preferred Stock in the form of depositary shares to be evidenced by
depositary receipts to be issued pursuant to a deposit agreement in the event
the Corporation elects to offer to the public fractional interests in shares of
Preferred Stock, and to execute in such person's name, place and stead, in any
and all capacities, any and all amendments to said Registration Statement.

And such persons hereby ratify and confirm all that any said attorney-in-fact or
agent, or any substitute, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

Witness the due execution hereof by the following persons in the capacities
indicated as of this August 19, 1999.

Name/Signature                                       Capacity
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/s/ THOMAS H. O'BRIEN                     Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
- ----------------------------                      and Director
Thomas H. O'Brien

                                                     Director
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Paul W. Chellgren

/s/ ROBERT N. CLAY                                   Director
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Robert N. Clay

/s/ GEORGE A. DAVIDSON, JR.                          Director
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George A. Davidson, Jr.

/s/ DAVID F. GIRARD-DICARLO                          Director
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David F. Girard-diCarlo

/s/ WALTER E. GREGG, JR.                    Vice Chairman and Director
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Walter E. Gregg

/s/ WILLIAM R. JOHNSON                               Director
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William R. Johnson


/s/ BRUCE LINDSAY                                    Director
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Bruce Lindsay

/s/ W. CRAIG MCCLELLAND                              Director
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W. Craig McClelland

/s/ JANE G. PEPPER                                   Director
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Jane G. Pepper

/s/ JACKSON H. RANDOLPH                              Director
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Jackson H. Randolph

/s/ JAMES E. ROHR                     President, Chief Operating Officer and
- -----------------------------                        Director
James E. Rohr

/s/ RODERIC H. ROSS                                  Director
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Roderic H. Ross

/s/ RICHARD P. SIMMONS                               Director
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Richard P. Simmons

/s/ THOMAS J. USHER                                  Director
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Thomas J. Usher

/s/ MILTON A. WASHINGTON                             Director
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Milton A. Washington

/s/ HELGE H. WEHMEIER                                Director
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Helge H. Wehmeier

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