professed

Openly declared or acknowledged.

His professed religion was Catholicism.

Professing to be qualified.

She is a professed expert in mechanics.

[…] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.

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.