Bilateral relations between Brazil and Greece can be traced back to 1883, when a greek colony was established in santa catarina, Brazil - After that, in 1912, a diplomatic mission representing Brazil was opened in Athens, which was just temporarily closed during the second world war.

After the war was over, the brazilian representation reopened, being a few years later upgraded to the status of embassy, showing the steadily growing importance of Greece to Brazil and vice versa - Alliances between the two countries generally range around mutual support in international groups, such as the announcement done by Greece in 2005 of the support by that country to Brazil in taking a permanent chair in the UN's security council.