Fr. Glocar applied for US Citizenship after his arrival in the US and a hearing was held in July of 1947 before Judge Walter B. Wanamaker. During the hearing it was revealed that Fr. Glocar’s superior officer, Bishop Dionisiye who had brought him over from Yugoslavia and had approved of his appointment to St. Demitrius Church, had advised against citizenship. He wrote that his application is to be refused, “Unless he repudiates his relief and political activities as a pro-Tito Partisanship and repudiate the medal Tito sent him”. Government agents who had not found enough evidence to bar him from citizenship were present at the hearing. Fr. Glocar tried to point out that his allegiance was to the Yugoslavian people and not to the Yugoslavian dictator. He asked the Judge several times, “What does pro-Tito Partisan mean?” In the end his case was tabled and not reheard again for almost 10 years.

Possibly seeking relief from his difficulties with the church, Glocar turned to painting. His first remembrance of art was when he was four years old when he saw sketches of his sister modeling in native dress in his village. As a seminary student in Sarajevo, he observed and studied the artists who set up their easels in the streets, “I was always behind their necks, and admired their oils. I could only afford watercolors”.  For the next five years he took art instruction at the Akron Institute of Art. 

He began exhibiting his works in 1954 at the Institute’s annual May show. He had shows at the Butler Museum in Youngstown, the Circulating Gallery of the Dayton Art Museum and the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center where he received an honorable mention in the 1959 show.

In 1960 Fr. Glocar had an impressive one man show at the Woman’s City Club in Akron. He was becoming well known in the area for his art shows. In 1961 at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center’s 8^th Annual Show, he won first honorable mention for his painting “Gothic Night”.

However, his troubles with the church did not end after citizenship. Since he first became Priest at St. Demetrius church Fr. Glocar had ongoing disputes with some of the church’s members. They centered on his support of Yugoslavian refugees and support of the Mother Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Some in the American Serbian Orthodox Church were vehemently anti-communist and this included some in his congregation, church leaders and the head of the American Serbian Orthodox Church – Bishop Dionisiye. Bishop Dionisiye had traveled to Washington D.C. in 1960 to protest Marshall Tito’s visit with President Eisenhower.

On November 11, 1962 a meeting was held at St.Demetrius Church.  One member of the Board of Directors, Pavle Pavlovich stated, “We must oust Glocar, because of his pro-communist activities”.  Fr. Glocar said his only political activity was sending relief packages to the widows of Orthodox Priests. But a vote of confidence was taken and Fr. Glocar lost, setting in action his removal as Priest of St. Demetrius Church. The recommendation of removal was made official by a church court presided over by Bishop Dionisiye; “Political activities” was listed as the reason.

Fr. Glocar sued Pavlovich $100,800 for slander for calling him a communist.   He also appealed his ouster in court, maintaining that the meeting to remove him was without proper notice and that some of his backers were disenfranchised and unable to vote. The court ruled that it had no jurisdiction in this case and urged the two parties to come to agreement. The personal turmoil of this dispute weighed heavily on Fr  Glocar and he was hospitalized in January in the midst of the proceedings. In March of 1963 he gave up fighting his ouster and he moved his family from the rectory to a private home.

In May of 1963 the Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade ruled that the removal of Fr. Glocar was unlawful and reversed the recommendation of Bishop Dionisiye, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the US and Canada. They ordered the disposition of Bishop Dionisije and the Division the North American Diocese into three dioceses. Instead, in 1963 the US Canadian Serbian Church voted to separate themselves from Belgrade and become independent. Court battles related to these actions in 1963 went on for decades and were not resolved until the 1990’s. The ruling by Belgrade had no effect on Fr. Glocar’s status, he remained ousted.