| Official Name: | Škocjan |
| Other Name: | Staro Apno (until 1990), Škocjan pri Turjaku |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Lower Carniola |
| Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Central Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Grosuplje |
| Area Total Km2: | 2 |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 66 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 45.8849°N 14.6327°W |
| Elevation M: | 492 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Škocjan (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈʃkoːtsjan/) is a settlement in the Municipality of Grosuplje in central Slovenia. It lies in the hills south of Grosuplje, near Turjak. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.[2]
The name of the settlement was changed from Staro Apno to Škocjan (literally, 'Saint Cantius') in 1992.[3] Although many former religious names of settlements in Slovenian were restored after the fall of communism, this is one of the few cases of a settlement receiving a religious name after 1990 even though it did not have a religious name before the Second World War.[4]
The parish church in the village is dedicated to Saint Cantianus and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1260 and restyled in the Baroque in the mid-18th century and extensively rebuilt in 1906 by the master mason Janez Ronko Jr (1876–1963).[5] Part of the original church is preserved as a side chapel. The Slovene Protestant reformer Primož Trubar was christened in the chapel in 1508.[6]