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In 1924, he returned to Harbin and was appointed to establish an new monastery dedicated to the Kazan Mother of God. As the center piece of the monastery he had built the [[cathedral]] with three altars in honor of the [[Our Lady of Kazan|Kazan Icon of the Mother of God]], in which the right [[altar]] was dedicated to the Great Martyr [[Panteleimon]] and left altar to the [[Archangel Michael]]. The monastery also included [[cell]]s for the monastics, a print shop, and a hospital. The foundation of the cathedral was laid and blessed by Abp. Methodius on [[August 17]], 1924 and consecrated in December of the same year.
In late 1929, Archim. Juvenaly was awarded the rights of a superior of a first-class monastery by the [[Holy Synod]] of [[ROCOR]]. In 1934, the Holy Synod, through the intercession of Bp. [[Victor (Svyatin) of Krasnodar and Kuban|Victor]], head of the [[Russian Orthodox Mission in China|Russian mission in Peking]], decreed Archim. Juvenaly to be Bishop of Xinjiang (in Eastern Turkestan) as the second [[vicar]] of the Russian mission, with his residence in the city of Urumchi to serve expatriate Russians from the Bolsheviks. After a formal election, Archim. Juvenaly's [[consecration of a bishop|consecration]] took place on [[February 10]], 1935 in St. Nicholas Cathedral in Harbin by the celebrants Abps. [[Meletius (Zaborosky) of Harbin and Manchuria|Meletius of Harbin]] and Manchuria and Nestor of Kamchatka and Petropavlovsk, Bps. Dimitry of Hailar and [[John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker|John (Maximovich)]] of Shanghai, who was the first vicar of the Peking Mission.
After his consecration, Bp. Juvenaly found travel to his new [[see]] impossible. As a consequence, Bp. Juvenaly continue as superior of the Kazan Mother of God Monastery until in 1936 when he administered the Peking mission for Bp. Victor while he was in Belgrade. During 1937-1938, Bp. Juvenaly acted for vicar bishop John of Shanghai while he worked for the Synod of Bishops in Sremski Karlovci. After Bp. John's return, Bp. Juvenaly was attached to St. Nicholas Memorial Church in Shanghai participating in the work of the mission.
