professed

adjective3

1. •
   Openly declared or acknowledged.

   • His professed religion was Catholicism.
2. •
   Professing to be qualified.

   • She is a professed expert in mechanics.
3. •
   Admitted to a religious order.

   • The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns. — 1887