Kuzhithurai

Kuzhithurai is a city and a region in Kanyakumari District in the Indian territory of Tamil Nadu. It is the authoritative home office of the Vilavancode Taluk. It is situated along the Kochi-Trivandrum-Kanyakumari National interstate 47 and near the Tamil Nadu-Kerala outskirt. It has a recorded seaport thura or thurai where old traders originated from over the Arabian ocean in antiquated occasions. This town is well known for the yearly Vavu Bali Shradham for the predecessors held amid the Mahalaya Amavasi service that is held here amid July/Aug malayalam Month Karkidakam.

Alongside the religious service amid this time, an extraordinary display - Valubali Mela/Exhibition - was begun by Shri. T.C Kesava Pillai, MLC from Kuzhithurai in 1900s. Today this is proceeded by the Kuzhithura Town Municipality. Tamil and Malayalam is the nearby and authority dialect in Kuzhithurai. People in this area are skilled to talk both Tamil and Malayalam. Hinduism is the real religions in the town where we can discover more Churches around Kuzhiturai. The Lord Shiva Temple close to post office is the old Temple in Kuzhitura.

On Monday, December 22, 2014, Pope Francis raised the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Kuzhithurai, with 264,222 Catholics and an aggregate populace of 855,485, out of an area taken from the neighboring Roman Catholic Diocese of Kottar, and named the Rev. Fr. Jerome Dhas Varuvel, S.D.B., 63, until then a learner ace for the Salesians of Don Bosco in the Vellore ward, as its first Bishop. Its central command will be at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Thirithuvapuram, and it will be a suffragan see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madurai.