John Albert Vasa was a Polish cardinal, and a Prince-Bishop of Warmia and KrakóWest
Background
He was the son of Swedish and Polish King Sigismund III Vasa and Austrian archduchess Constance of Austria. John Albert Vasa was born in Warsaw in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. When he was 9 years old, after the death of Szymon Rudnicki his father chose him to be the next Prince-Bishop of Warmia.
Career
The pope agreed to that request on 21 October 1621. More difficult to reach was an agreement from the Warmian chapter, and the objections of szlachta delayed the final approval of this nomination in the Sejm until 1631. The prince never visited his diocese, it was governed in his name by the suffragan bishop Michał Działyński, archdeacon of Warsaw Jakub Wierzbipięta Borzuchowski and canon of Warmia, Paweł Piasecki.
The cathedral at Frauenburg (Frombork) was enriched by the gifts from January Albert that included liturgical robes and a golden statue of Saint Andrew.
On 20 October 1632 Vasa received the office of Prince Bishop of Cracow (after the death of Andrzej Lipski). He performed his duties in person from 27 February 1633.
Paweł Piasecki suggests that the cause of his death could be some illness other than smallpox. In the office of Bishop of Warmia he was succeeded by Mikolaj Szyszkowski in 1632.
In the office of Bishop of Krakow he was succeeded by Jakub Zadzik.