San Giovanni Grisostomo is a Roman Catholic church in the Cannaregio district of Venice. It was founded in 1080 and destroyed by fire in 1475. Mauro Codussi and his son Domenico rebuilt it in the Renaissance style, starting in 1497 and finishing in 1525. The interior is based on a Greek cross plan, and the bell tower dates from the late sixteenth century.
Giovanni Bellini's Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse (1513) hangs in the right chapel. Sebastiano del Piombo's altarpiece, commissioned by Caterina Contarini, is in the Rosary chapel at the left rear. Two canvases by Giovanni Mansueti, originally organ doors, hang behind the facade.
The Bernabò chapel has a sculptural design by Codussi and a marble Coronation of the Virgin (1500 to 1502) completed by Tullio Lombardo. A finger relic of Saint Onuphrius was donated in 1516.
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