John Joseph Snyder (October 25, 1925 – September 27, 2019)[1] was an American prelate of the Catholic Church, He served as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine in Florida from 1979 to 2000.

He attended St. Bartholomew and St. Andrew Avellino schools before studying for the priesthood at Cathedral College in Brooklyn and Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York.

Snyder was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Brooklyn on June 9, 1951, by Bishop Thomas Molloy.

On December 13, 1972, Pope Paul VI appointed Snyder as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

In October 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed Snyder as bishop of the Diocese of Saint Augustine, where he was installed on December 5, 1979.