Sremska Kamenica, November 13, 2026
His Eminence Metropolitan Irinej (Bulović), the spiritual father of His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije and the ruling hierarch in Bačka for 36 years, was recently hospitalized in serious condition.
Metropolitan Irinej Bulović is being treated at the Oncology Institute of Vojvodina in Sremska Kamenica, where he has been placed on a ventilator, the Serbian outlet Kurir reports.
The Serbian Orthodox Church called on the faithful last night to pray for the Metropolitan’s recovery: “Children of St. Sava, we call on you this evening to offer fervent prayers to the Lord and the Mother of God for the healing of Metropolitan Irinej of Bačka.”
A special prayer for his healing was also served last night in all churches of the Diocese of Bačka.
Metropolitan Irinej, born in 1947 in Stanišić, is one of the most influential and longest-serving hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
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