Stan Chu Ilo, STL, GMPH, D.ED, Ph.D

Research Professor of World Christianity, Global Health, and African Studies, Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University, Chicago

Stan Chu Ilo is a Catholic priest from Awgu diocese, Nigeria, and Research Professor of World Christianity, African Studies and Global Health at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois (USA). He is also an Honorary Professor of Religion and Theology at Durham University, Durham, England, and Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Nigeria. He is the Coordinating Servant of the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN) . He is the 2017 winner of the Afro-Global Award for Global Leadership Impact. He is the author or editor of 17 books including Where is God? An African Theology of Suffering and Smiling (Orbis Books, 2025), Daily Walk with Jesus: African Biblical Reflections 365 for a Good Christian Life (2023) Someone Beautiful to God (2020),Handbook of African Catholicism (Orbis, 2022), Ecological Ethics for Cosmic Flourishing (Cascade, 2022); Under the Palaver Tree: Post-Vatican II African Ecclesiology (2023); A Poor and Merciful Church (2019), Church and Development in Africa (2014).