Giovanni Battista Albani

On 24 March 1586 Albani was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus V as Titular Patriarch of Alexandria. On 30 Mar 1586, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Antonio Santorio, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, with Filippo Mocenigo, Archbishop of Nicosia, and Giuseppe Donzelli, Archbishop of Sorrento, serving as co-consecrators. He was Patriarch of Alexandria until his death in 1588.

While Patriarch, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

• Antonio Migliori, Bishop of San Marco (1586);
• Costanzo de Sarnano, Bishop of Vercelli (1587);
• Ferdinand de Rye, Archbishop of Besançon (1587);
• Fabio Biondi, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1588); and
• Owen Lewis (bishop), Bishop of Cassano all'Jonio (1588).