The First Pastor of the parish of St. Albert the Great is the Reverend Leo J. DePlaunty. Father DePlaunty was born in Bay County on March 1, 1911. He received his grade school education in the neighborhood of his birth. He attended St. Michael High School in Flint for one year after which he entered Sacred Heart Seminary.

After completing his High School and College Course at Sacred Heart Seminary in June of 1932, he entered Mount St. Mary Seminary of the West, in Norwood, Ohio in September of the same year. After four years of Theological study in that institution, Father DePlaunty was ordained to the Priesthood on June 7, 1936.

The first assignment of the newly-ordained priest was as assistant Pastor of St. Matthew Parish on the East Side of Detroit. On January 3, 1938, Archbishop Mooney transferred him to the post of Assistant Pastor of St. Mary of Redford parish, Detroit. After five years, he was transferred to a similar post at St. Gabriel, Detroit. In 1947, Father DePlaunty was made Assistant Pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish, St. Clair Shores, from where he was transferred to St. Charles Parish in Detroit. This Post he occupied until in June of this year, Edward Cardinal Mooney, the Archbishop of Detroit, appointed him to the newly created parish of St. Albert the Great to be its’ first Pastor.

Father DePlaunty, the first pastor of St. Albert the Great Parish, resides at 5130 Pardee road, Dearborn, Michigan.