John Baptist Scandella STD (Gibraltar, 19 September 1821 - id., 27 August 1880) was a Gibraltarian Roman Catholic priest of Genoese descent.

He remained there for ten years, returning to Gibraltar in 1855 to be appointed secretary to Vicar Apostolic Henry Hughes.

The pieces had been recovered by a fisherman and later delivered to Juan Romero de Figueroa, the priest in charge at the Church of St. Mary the Crowned and St. Bernard.

After a popular fundraising campaign, a site was acquired along Engineer Road, and a new chapel was built, where Our Lady of Europe was enthroned in May 1866.

Its front piece depicted the coat of arms of Pope Pius IX and that of Bishop Scandella, together with a monogram of Our Lady of Europe.

[4] Scandella promoted the institution of new schools, both primary and secondary, for boys and girls, charging the wealthy parents to support the education of poorer children.

is spoken in Gibraltar.Thanks to his efforts by the 1870s, the Roman Catholic Church took a position of pre-eminence in the Gibraltarian education that lasted until the twentieth century.

Scandella tried to enlist the wealthiest classes of Gibraltar join his cause, however, the members of the Exchange and Commercial Library refused.

[9] On the contrary, he rejected the presence of Maltese immigrants on the grounds that they were mostly criminals, an opinion shared with the majority of the Gibraltarian society at the time.