Oloph Bexell received his bachelor of theology in 1974 and was ordained in the Diocese of Växjö the same year.
In 1988 he defended his thesis in practical theology, and was employed the same year by the Swedish Church Board for Teaching and Education.
His research focuses on the history of liturgy,[2] homiletics, hymnology and canon law, as well as on biographies, where he has authored a large number of articles in the national biographical dictionary Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, around 25 as of 2014.
[5] In the international record series Corpus Christianorum, he published in 2023 a critical edition of decision of the Uppsala assembly in 1593 with commentary.
[7] He was formerly deputy dean of the Faculty of Theology in Uppsala, and until 2015 chairman of the Swedish Society of Church History (Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen [sv].