Fr. Dean Wilhelm is our pastor. Rev. Dean Wilhelm received his B.A. in Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston in 1984.  He was a seminarian at the Pontifical North American College in Rome from 1984 until 1988.  He received his License in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1987 as well as his diploma in Pastoral Theology in 1988.  Fr. Dean was ordained a priest on July 23, 1988. He was Associate Pastor at St. Thomas More Catholic Church and at the St. Mary’s Catholic Center in College Station, TX. He was the Pastor from June 1997 to June 2005 at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in College Station, TX. Furthermore, he was the Formation Director at St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston, TX from July 2005 to May 2006 and from 2006 to 2009 he was the Vice Rector. He was the Pastor at St. William Catholic Church in Round Rock, Texas from July 2009 - January 2021.

Fr. Dean tells us that he had the immense blessing to be a seminarian in Rome during the papacy of St. John Paul II. During those years, he also had the profound opportunity to work with St. Teresa of Calcutta’s Missionaries of Charity. These experiences have greatly formed him and impacted the exercise of his priestly ministry. They instilled in him a great love for the Real Presence of Christ in the Mass and in His Mercy in the Sacrament of Confession.  He says, “having the blessing of meeting these two saints has had an amazing influence in my life as a priest. They have challenged me to desire to see the face of Christ in every human person I encounter.”