Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke teaches Catholic ecclesiology and ecumenism at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, a member of the research institute of Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS), as well as the director of the Centre Vincent Lebbe (CVL), Université Catholique de Louvain. He is a member of the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN). Prior to joining the UCLouvain, he was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Hermeneutics, University of Bonn, Germany.

He is the author of Ecumenical and Interreligious Identities in Nigeria: Transformation through Dialogue (Lexington Press, 2022), and The Making of a Synodal Church: A Primer on Co-participation in Existing Ecclesial Structures (Paulines, 2024).