Since its founding, the center has been headquartered at the Greek Pavilion, a building donated to Universidad de Chile by Messrs. Gabriel and Jorge Mustakis Dragonas, General Consuls of Greece in Santiago and Valparaíso, respectively.
The centre's research field and teaching extends to Greek culture's three great social and political stages: Ancient, Byzantine and Neo-Greek.
[1] The centre was founded in 1968 as the Centro de Estudios Bizantinos y Neohelénicos, under the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Hernán Ramírez Necochea.
Its founding professors were Fotios Malleros (1914–1986), Héctor Herrera Cajas (1930–1997), Alejandro Zorbas and Miguel Castillo Didier (1934–present).
In the words of Medieval History PhD José Marín: "It is a study of great intellectual rigor, with an impeccable critical apparatus in which all existing sources for the subject are cited and commented; in short, it is a highest-level research effort which has deservedly placed its author among the most important Byzantinists of second half of the 20th century"[3] Considering that German historian Günther Weiss included it in his specialized bibliographic repertoire.