The Special Administration of the Holy See ( it, Amministrazione Speciale della Santa Sede, abbreviated ASSS) was a

dicastery A dicastery (from gr, δικαστήριον, dikastērion, law-court, from δικαστής, 'judge, juror') is the name of some departments of the Roman Curia. ''Pastor bonus'' ''Pastor bonus'' (1988), includes this definition: ''Praed ...

of the Roman Curia from 1929 to 1967. It was established by

Pope Pius XI Pope Pius XI ( it, Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in February 1939. He was the first sovereign of Vatican City f ...

on 7 June 1929 to manage the ₤750 million in cash and 1,000 million in Italian government bonds transferred to the

Holy See The Holy See ( lat, Sancta Sedes, ; it, Santa Sede ), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome. It includes the apostolic episcopal see of the Diocese of R ...

in implementation of the Financial Convention attached to the

Lateran Treaty The Lateran Treaty ( it, Patti Lateranensi; la, Pacta Lateranensia) was one component of the Lateran Pacts of 1929, agreements between the Kingdom of Italy under King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and the Holy See under Pope Pius XI to settl ...

of 1929. In 1967,

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...

combined the Special Administration of the Holy See and the

Administration of the Property of the Holy See Administration of the Property of the Holy See ( it, Amministrazione dei Beni della Santa Sede, abbreviated ABSS) was a commission that, until 1967, administered the property of the Holy Pee other than the money in cash and Italian government bond ...

into one office, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, erected on 15 August 1967.Phillipe Levillain. 2002. ''The Papacy: An Encyclopedia''. p. 10; ''Annuario Pontificio 2012'', p. 1846

Directors

Bernardino Nogara Bernardino Nogara (June 17, 1870 — November 15, 1958) was the financial advisor to the Vatican between 1929 and 1954, appointed by Pope Pius XI and retained by Pope Pius XII as the first Director of the Special Administration of the Holy See ...

(1929—1954) #

Henri de Maillardoz Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Mon ...

(1954—1967)

Secretaries of the Cardinalitial Commission

Alberto di Jorio Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic '' Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albe ...

(1940 — 1947) * Nicola Canali (1952 — 1961)

References

Bibliography

*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 Malachi Brendan Martin (23 July 1921 – 27 July 1999), also known under the pseudonym of Michael Serafian, was an Irish-born American Traditionalist Catholic priest, biblical archaeologist, exorcist, palaeographer, professor, and prolific ...

- ''Rich Church, Poor Church'' (Putnam, New York, 1984) * Saba, Andrea Filippo. (2004).
LA SOCIETÀ COMMERCIALE D'ORIENTE ENTRE LA DIVERSIFICACIÓN Y LA SITUACIÓN ESTRATÉGICA INTERNACIONAL (1902-1935)
. ''Historia Empresarial''. {{Roman Curia footer Economic history of the Holy See Former departments of the Roman Curia Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See