Yep, some thousand years ago. And my faith prospered BY THE GRACE OF GOD..... Okay, I'm a bit of a pagan-Catholic... but I still think we are the second chosen after the Jewish folk.
And I don't see a whole lot of Mexican Greek Orthodox, or Coptic Brazillians. So, it has worked out pretty well.
His Grace, Bishop Alejo of Mexico City [far right] celebrated the Divine Liturgy with His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom in Mexico City.