Person
Rav Yaakov ha-Kohen bar Mordechai רב יעקב הכהן בר מרדכי
head of Sura from 4561
Rav Yaakov ha-Kohen took Sura in 4561 (801) and held it fourteen years.
Fourteen years he held Sura, and not one word of his has come down: no responsum, no dispute, no incident.
On the timeline
4510 · 750 CEThe Flowering of the Geonic Age and the Sheiltot of Rav Achai4510 · 750 CEThe first books after the Talmud
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Sources
Rishonim
- Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon — the list of the academy's heads by name and year
- Seder Tannaim ve-Amoraim — a list put together about 884—within this very century, the testimony of a contemporary rather than a retelling of Sherira
Basis: documents and evidence.