Kahana ben Abba Mari, 14th Exilarch I

• Preferred Name: Kahana ben Abba Mari, 14th Exilarch I^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Kahani I Exilarch at Babylon
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 14th Jewish Exilarch at BabylonBET 400 AND 415
  
• Death: 415 in Babylon, Mesopotamia, now Iraq at LATI: N3 LONG: E4
  
• Occupation: Rosh Yeshiva of the academy at Pumbedita
  
• Religion: Jewish - Haredi Orthodox
  
• Birth: ABT 370 in Iraq at LATI: N3 LONG: E4
  
• Occupation: Rosh Yeshiva of Sura (370-400)
  
• FSID: 9WCX-79V
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Rav Kahana, a member of the Academy at Sura, later became Rosh Yeshiva of the academy at Pumbedita.
  Exilarch Kahana I ben Abba beni David was Exilarch (Exilarch [Hebrew: ראש גלות Rosh Galut, Aramaic: ריש גלותא Reish Galuta lit. "head of the exile", Greek: Æchmalotarcha], referring to the leaders of the Diaspora Jewish community following the deportation of the population of Judah into Babylonian exile after the destruction of the kingdom of Judah) in Babylonia between 400 and 415.
  Kahana I ben Abba was our ancestor through two distinct lines of descent: through his son Mar Zutra I or his daughter Šošanduxt of Iraq, each of whom was independently our ancestor. OR, if the tree should be amended, Kahana was the brother, not the father, of Šošanduxt, in which case Kahana's father, Abba ben Ukba, was our ancestor through two distinct lines of descent: through his son Kahana I ben Abba and through his daughter Šošanduxt of Iraq. In either case, you and I are descended through two distinct lines.
  
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  Also mentioned in Abarbanel Family Scroll – undated handwritten manuscript from the collection of the late Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, held by Chaim Freedman.
  Reference was made to “Elef Margaliot” 1993, Meir Wunder.
  
  About
  A celebrated Babylonian amora; born 352; died 427; reestablished the academy at Sura, and was the first editor of the Babylonian Talmud. According to a tradition preserved in the academies (Ḳid. 72b),

1. Huna ben Kahana 15th Exilarch IV, b. 395 in Babilonia     d. 441 in Babylonia
2. Mar Zutra I 'the Pious' ben Kahana 16th Exilarch, b. ABT 400 in Babylonia     d. ABT 456

1. Title: Bibliography: Letter of Sherira Gaon; Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot; Zacuto, YuḦasin; Weiss, Dor, iii. 208 et seq.; Bacher, Agada der Babyl. Amoräer, p. 144
   Publication: Name: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12467-rab-ashi;