János Keresztély Scitovszky de Nagykér (Hungarian: nagykéri Scitovszky János Keresztély; Slovak: Ján Krstiteľ Scitovský; 1 November 1785 – 19 October 1866) was a Hungarian prelate, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary.

One of its members, Antal (János' grandfather), settled to Szepesváralja, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Spišské Podhradie, Slovakia) in 1730.

[4] During his tenure, the upper church of the Primatial Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Adalbert was completed and dedicated on August 31, 1856, in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph along with the Viennese Court.

[5] About a week later, Liszt himself played at a Mass when Archbishop Scitovszky consecrated the new Hermina Chapel in Budapest, dedicated to the memory of Archduchess Hermine of Austria.

In 1853, Scitovszky undertook construction of the Cathedral Library, which was built according to plans by József Hild One of the richest religious libraries of Hungary, it houses approximately 250,000 books, among which are several codices and incunabula, such as the Latin explanation of the ‘Song of Songs’ from the 12th century, the ‘Lövöföldi Corvina’ originating from donations of King Matthias, or the Jordánszky Codex [hu], which includes the Hungarian translation of the Bible from 1516 to 1519.