Church of Saint John of Verdara, Gothic religious monument in Padua, Italy.

The Church of Saint John of Verdara is a former Roman Catholic church on Via San Giovanni di Verdara in Padua. Its gabled facade faces east and retains Gothic openings, including a rose window framed by polylobed arches; the side walls are articulated by deep blind arches. The interior, once divided into three naves, has been partitioned for hospital use, and the monastic buildings with two cloisters stand to the south.

The church already existed in 1219 as the place of worship of a priory of white Benedictine monks, in an area called "viridaria" for its vegetation. In 1431 Pope Eugene IV gave the whole monastery in commendam to his nephew Cardinal Antonio Correr, who in 1436 entrusted it to the Canons Regular of the Lateran; they had Lorenzo da Bologna and Giuliano da Porlezza enlarge the church and convent. It became an abbey in 1566, was suppressed by the Republic of Venice in 1783, passed briefly to the Jesuits in 1852, and was turned into a military hospital after 1866.

The name Verdara comes from the "viridaria", the lush vegetation of the area where the Benedictine priory arose. Between the 16th and 18th centuries the canons' art and book collection, enriched by the Pietro Montagnana fund and by Marco Mantova Bonavides' collection in 1711, drew humanists such as Pietro Bembo, a regular visitor.

The complex now belongs to the Italian Army as the "De Bertolini" barracks, home of the Military Department of Legal Medicine of Padua, so the grounds are closed to the public. The church facade can still be partly seen from Via San Giovanni di Verdara, where the entrance is numbered 123.

The church facade still shows Gothic openings, including a rose window framed by polylobate arches; the rest of the structure is later, perhaps 17th-century. The apse at the west end projects markedly and ends in a polygonal plan, and beside it stands the base of a bell tower largely demolished after 1866.