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TheSpecial Administration of the Holy See (Italian:Amministrazione Speciale della Santa Sede, abbreviatedASSS) was adicastery of theRoman Curia from 1929 to 1967. It was established byPope Pius XI on 7 June 1929 to manage the₤750 million in cash and 1,000 million in Italian government bonds transferred to theHoly See in implementation of the Financial Convention attached to theLateran Treaty of 1929.^[1] The ASSS depended directly on the Supreme Pontiff.^[2]

The ASSS purchased many lands in Switzerland before theLex Koller.^[3]

Henry de Maillardoz from Freiburg was also a director of the ASSS from 1929 to 1967.^[3]

In 1967,Pope Paul VI combined the Special Administration of the Holy See and theAdministration of the Property of the Holy See into one office, theAdministration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, erected on 15 August 1967.^[4]

1. Bernardino Nogara (1929—1954)
2. Henri de Maillardoz (1954—1967)

• Alberto di Jorio (1940 — 1947)
• Nicola Canali (1952 — 1961)

• Lo Bello, Nino (1968).The Vatican Empire. Trident Press, New York.
• Pollard, John F. (1999). "The Vatican and the Wall Street Crash: Bernardino Nogara and the Papal Finances in the early 1930s."The Historical Journal, 42: 1077-1091.
• Pollard, John F. (2005).Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850–1950. Cambridge University Press.
• Malachi Martin -Rich Church, Poor Church (Putnam, New York, 1984)ISBN 0-399-12906-5
• Williams, Paul L. (1 May 2003).Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia. Prometheus.ISBN 978-1591020653.

• Economic history of the Holy See
• Former departments of the Roman Curia
• Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

• CS1 Italian-language sources (it)
• CS1 Swiss High German-language sources (de-ch)
• Articles containing Italian-language text