Vladika Irinej’s Slip Down Mount Ego-verest

Dear readers, let’s take a quick hike up Mount Ego-verest, where the air is thin, the egos are thick, and Vladika Irinej Dobrijević, Bishop of Eastern America, is on a slippery slope! Bishop Irinej should be packing his bags for an early retirement—because nothing says “holy leadership” like a financial mess big enough to make even the saints weep.

Bishop Irinej has been climbing Mount Ego-verest with a backpack stuffed full of flops: a $235,000 tax debt for Marcha Monastery because he allegedly “forgot” how Ohio tax exemptions work (ORC §5709.07, hello?), a $25,000 donation for a monastery house that never got built (ORC §2913.01 waves), and a 2021 St. Sava NYC spending spree so wild the Patriarch had to step in. Oh, and let’s not forget his latest summit attempt—trying to grab St. Sava Cleveland’s $8.5 million in assets.

Sorry, bishop Irinej, but our community’s got a big “Not today, Your Grace!” sign ready for You—and we have a lawyer on speed dial to make sure of it!

Our 50 +-page submission to the Holy Synod—packed with receipts of tax violations, shady donations, and transparency fails—has bishop Irinej sliding down Mount Ego-verest faster than you can say “Great Lent fast.” At 70, he’s the perfect candidate for a quiet retirement, counting his tax bills in peace while my community protects our sacred assets.

How Christians:D, right?

Stay tuned for updates from the Sabor’s final communiqué later this week—I’ll be sipping rakija in Cleveland, laughing at the irony of it all!